roh@gmdzi.UUCP (Peter Rohleder ) (12/07/89)
A shop in Koeln (Cologne, West-Germay) is offering 2400 Baud-Modems for 359,- DM (that's about 170 $). The brand is "Datatronic". Has anybody heard of them, are they reliable ? ======================================================================== Peter Rohleder, roh@gmdzi.UUCP, (++49 2241) 14-2208 German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) Schloss Birlinghoven, Postfach 1240, D-5205 St. Augustin 1, FRG ========================================================================
bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King) (12/14/89)
I've used datatronic 2400s on a multiuser system I run here in Seattle. They took calls for 24 hours a day for around a year, and then decided that they would randomly crash. they fixed themselves after being turned on and off, but it was irritating to have to do this for a bank of modems. They seemed compatible with virtually everything; never had any problems with people unable to connect to them from any less-than-5-year-old modem. This is heavy duty use, far above what most individuals will put their modems through, but it was consistent with the entire batch of 8 modems. I'd say that they got 30,000 hours of use before starting this reset-requiring behavior. We buy them for around $100 in the US, with 110volt power supplies. The internal IBM PC type 2400 baud datatronics are cheaper. $89. Those're dealer prices. Retail here is between $150 and $199. So $179 is in the ballpark.
cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON) (12/16/89)
In article <9524@microsoft.UUCP>, bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King) writes: > I've used datatronic 2400s on a multiuser system I run here in Seattle. > They took calls for 24 hours a day for around a year, and then decided that > they would randomly crash. they fixed themselves after being turned on > and off, but it was irritating to have to do this for a bank of modems. Many datatronic 2400 has overheating problems. Later versions works better. (and the internal version too).