IKS@PSUVM.BITNET (Indra K. Singhal) (07/22/87)
Thank you very much for all your responses... Netnews, local BBSs incuded
I must have read over a dozen responses... I shall not quote since most of
them said the same thing.
Of the responses I received only one was from a ZOOM 2400 XL user. A happy
satisfied user, I may add. He mentioned that it handled noisy lines well but
had his doubts about the utility of the plethora of features that the XL is
bundled with. Unfortunately, his response came too late for me to sway my
choice...
Every one who replied, and I thank you all (you know who you are), and wrote
about the Multitech had good things to say about it. No one specifically said
anything about the 224EC internal modem, so since I thought the EC was just the
internal version of the EH I decided for it.
WRONG ! I got my EC and this specific piece had some bug in ROM that did not
allow the modem to detect BUSY. (I had B1, &Q0, verbose mode set with X1 and
all the documentation "on diskette" said (yuck)). I called support, the 800 no.
and was greeted very pleasantly and referred to a tech guy. I am impressed with
their support. He suggested I use X4 (undocumented). Bingo... it worked.
However, the ATL5 still showed X1 !!! Buggggggy ROM he said, when I called him
back... Then I got talking about the differences between EC and EH... I decided
to spend the extra and get the EH. I am posting the differences between EC and
EH in a separate posting...
Bottom line: the 224EC is a step child for Multitech. They direct all dev. at
the 224EH.
For those who will not read my next posting... MNP 4 upgrade is now being
shipped free for 224EH (EH only) users. Call to get yours. MNP 4 and 5 combined
upgrade will be available in about a month. Again EH only !!! ...So I am gettin
the EH !!
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Keep Smiling (-:-) --Indra K. Singhal
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