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From: harbula@edinboro.edu (Dave Harbula)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Where can I buy Telebit (or other modems) cheap?
Message-ID: <822@edinboro.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 22:57:15 GMT
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In article <1358@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>, ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM
(Norman Goodger) writes:
> 
>  1. There is no such thing as a cheap Telebit.
>  2. The USR Courier HST 14.4 modem is faster than a Telebit.
>  3. Depending on your specific needs, in the BBS world there are
>  far more HST's out there than Telebits.
>  4. For the somewhere near the same $$ you can buy a USR HST dual Standard
>  and get HST and V.32 compatability and still be faster than Telebit.
>  5. The Telebit modems are notoriously hard to setup, they have more
>  registers than I care to think about..
> 
>  Bottom line...if you want speed, get an HST...

Hmmm.  As I sit here using a Trailblazer at 19.2k, I wonder how 14.4
is supposed to be faster.

We have found the Telebit T1000 to be competively priced.  As for being
difficult to set up, all one has to do is RTFM.  In our case we only had
to change one register.  I guess everyone has their own definition of
what constitutes "difficult".

	- Dave Harbula