gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (05/23/88)
Recently, there was discussion on comp.sys.mac about Practical Peripherals and their 2400 baud modem. The result was 8 separate endorsements, and mention of the "Hayes compatibility guaranteed, or your money back". Just one person complained that the modem was a pain for BBS sysops (in answer mode). He didn't say you couldn't get it to work, just that 80% of the traffic on Opus sysop Echo on Fidonet came from people encountering difficulty using this modem for a BBS.
kkim@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (05/26/88)
> /* Written 6:27 pm May 23, 1988 by kls@ditka.UUCP in uiucdcsm:comp.dcom.modems */ > We bought 3 of these modems for fairly heavy uucp/dial-up use > because they were cheap. When they worked, they were fine, but > all three failed within a month. > There is a 5-year warranty. Did you send them for repair/replacement? If so, what is the result? Kyongsok Kim Dept. of C.S.; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Arpa Internet/CSnet: kkim@a.cs.uiuc.edu uucp : ... {seismo, ihnp4, pur-ee}!uiucdcs!kkim
rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge) (05/27/88)
In article <78700002@uiucdcsp>, gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes: (about the Practical 2400 modem) > Just one person complained that the modem was a pain for BBS sysops > (in answer mode). He didn't say you couldn't get it to work, just > that 80% of the traffic on Opus sysop Echo on Fidonet came from people > encountering difficulty using this modem for a BBS. The modem resets itself to the speed of the last caller. Unless you set &D2 and drop DTR between calls (&D2 resets the modem on DTR low) or your software re-initializes the modem between calls, you will have some problems. We have these problems with using them on a Unix machine (AT&T 3B1) that doesn't drop DTR between logins.