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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Where can I buy Telebit (or other modems) cheap?
Message-ID: <1003@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 90 18:37:54 GMT
References: <1358@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Organization: Fiver Communications  Fremont, Ca
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From article <1358@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>, by ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger):
> In article <8377@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:

>  1. There is no such thing as a cheap Telebit.

      So how much $$ are Dual Standard HST's. 

>  2. The USR Courier HST 14.4 modem is faster than a Telebit.

       Only to another HST 14.4. But this is the same with Telebits
     in PEP mode. How much faster is it than the Telebit and why? 

>  3. Depending on your specific needs, in the BBS world there are
>  far more HST's out there than Telebits.
                  
      So you think there is more than the "BBS" world. Very good
   at least your learning.

>  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.

    Ok, I guy just posted you can get TB2500 for 940.00 Which gives you
  V.32. How much is the HST Dual Standard?
    
    What is the uucp throughput?

>  5. The Telebit modems are notoriously hard to setup, they have more
>  registers than I care to think about..

    Than don't think, you may hurt yourself....
    Just because it has more registers in the modem dosn't make it
    more difficult to setup. I only had to set 5 registers on my
    TB to set it up. Real hard huh?
  
>  Bottom line...if you want speed, get an HST...

    As if it where the only bottom line....
  I belevie the original poster was shopping around for "cheap" Telebit 
  modems. All you did was get on here and say buy a HST Dual standard
  because it's faster and you can get it for the same price. Yet you
  didn't give any details. If you going to play the pseudo advertisement
  game at least come up with some data and or reasons why. You sound like
  a used car salesperson with your statements above. Just because "Norm"
  says dosn't mean people will. A good comparison or a well written 
  technicial description of the product has a chance of getting saved 
  to a file.:-) 

---Bob  
   

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