efb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Everett F Batey) (03/03/91)
Confronted with an urgent need to run SLIP between two Sun3s (OS 4.1 and 4.1.1) and some easy to comeby telephone assets AND NO money for modems, we are trying to pick the most trustworthy and easy to accomplish SLIP link. Sites are within three miles, wire, 1/2 mile crow flight. - We have Meridian phones for which we can get 9600 baud RS-232 interfaces. DOES ANYBODY know if with handshaking and async over digitized phone line, these data phone options WORK SUCCESSFULLY for this purpose? - We have access to a four wire metallic circuit, not conditioned. Is there an economical, recent or old, technology four wire modem YOU USE to support 9600 baud SLIP ? - We have some available Telebit modems, no two alike and NO T2500. I don't think any are the newer of V32/V42, which ever that is. The last neighbor we knew using these with a 200 mile dialup phone path spent lots of time restarting the circuit. Is there a good way to use these locally over an analog delivered voice grade phone line ? - How would YOU rate from YOUR PERSONAL experience these options, for cost effectiveness and ease ( idiot-proof-ness ) of installation ? - Remember in answering these questions, the right answer leads to the most efficient use of tax dollars. Thanks /Ev/ efb@suned1.nswses.Navy.MIL efb@gcpacix.uucp efb@gcpacix.cotdazr.org efb@nosc.mil WA6CRE Gold Coast Sun Users Vta-SB-SLO DECUS gnu Opinions, MINE, NOT Uncle Sam_s | b-news postmaster xntp dns WAFFLE
syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) (03/04/91)
elroy!suned1!efb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Everett F Batey) writes: > Sites are within three miles, wire, 1/2 mile crow flight. > - We have access to a four wire metallic circuit, not conditioned. Is > there an economical, recent or old, technology four wire modem YOU USE > to support 9600 baud SLIP ? With that short a circuit, you can run LADD modems (Local Area Data Distributors) which are meant for four wire metalic circuts. Over three miles of wire you can easily do 19.2kb. Modems of this type are rather in-expensive. I ran two offices tied together by this method for several years and it worked just fine (Note, LADD modems come in both sync and async models.) Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235