dale@vicorp.UUCP (Dale Nielsen) (03/21/89)
I'm interested in buying an external 2400 baud modem for use with an Amiga 500. I see ads for a Supra 2400 baud external modem for $129.95 in magazines. Does anyone out there have any experience with this modem? Is it reliable or is it cheap junk? Any advice/recommendations with regard to this or other inexpensive 2400 baud modems would be appreciated. -- --Dale Nielsen ARPA: dale@vicorp.UU.NET V. I. Corporation UUCP: uunet!vicorp!dale Amherst Research Park PHONE: (413) 253-3482 Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 FAX: (413) 256-0574
hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu (03/21/89)
In article <1896@vicorp.UUCP>, dale@vicorp.UUCP (Dale Nielsen) writes... >I'm interested in buying an external 2400 baud modem for use with >an Amiga 500. I see ads for a Supra 2400 baud external modem for >$129.95 in magazines. Does anyone out there have any experience >with this modem? Is it reliable or is it cheap junk? I have had good luck with my Supra 2400, running it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on my BBS. It doesn't support error correction or anything, but it is a good, basic Hayes compatible in a nice compact package. You can't beat it for the money. I heard someone complain they couldn't connect to Supras. I think they may have been running a Ven-Tel or Racal-Vadic. I forget which. I haven't had any complaints on the Quirk (805-967-9357) though. -- Howard Owen, Computer Systems Manager internet: hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu Physics Computer Services BITNET: HBO@SBITP.BITNET University of California, Santa Barbara HEPNET/SPAN: SBPHY::HBO "I am not a pay TV service!" 805-961-8366 (work)
stern@cisunx.UUCP (Eric G Stern) (03/22/89)
In article <1363@hub.ucsb.edu>, hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu writes: > In article <1896@vicorp.UUCP>, dale@vicorp.UUCP (Dale Nielsen) writes... > > >I'm interested in buying an external 2400 baud modem for use with > >an Amiga 500. I see ads for a Supra 2400 baud external modem for > >$129.95 in magazines. Does anyone out there have any experience > >with this modem? Is it reliable or is it cheap junk? > I've been using the Supra 2400 baud modem for a while. The modem itself seems to work OK, however it has a weird effect on my system. I have an Amiga 2000 with a GVP 20MB hard card. When I connected the modem, the system hung in boot-up. It apparently dies in the startup sequence at the point it executes binddrivers. Leaving the modem turned off during bootup solves the problem. The problem does not occur if I am booting with a floppy only diskette that doesn't have the drivers for the hard disk. I don't know what is going on, but since just turning off the modem before boot solves the problem, I haven't worried to much about it. Eric Stern Physics, University of Pittsburgh
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (03/23/89)
I was really afraid to ask about this, because it seemed freaky to be
true. It seems that if my modem has CD high the GVP controller won't
boot. This happens a lot to me because I rely on the fact that my
modem (a cheap VolksModem 1200 that I use when I'm away from my usual
location) will keep a connection even when the Amiga reboots, exits
programs, does just about anything.
I can't think of any reason for the GVP code in Bindrivers to check
the status lines of the serial port.
Any news from GVP? This is one of those things that I've been meaning
to call GVP about (should have asked them at the JAUG meeting) but
it's not on my priority list :^).
-Tom
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