dna@ballast.cs.umd.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) (05/10/89)
I'm about to obtain two Sun SPARCstations, which I intend to connect via SLIP over a dialup line across a distance of five or ten miles. I'd like to hear opinions of the best modems for this purpose. I'm interested in peoples' experiences concerning speed, reliability, price, availability, etc. I've heard that PEP modems don't do so well because of the line turnaround time and I've heard that MNP compression has trouble with SLIP packets. Can anyone verify (or contradict)? Preferably email responses directly to me, and I'll post a summary. Thanks for your time. -- Doug Arnold, dna@emmy.umd.edu