currie@alumni.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Currie) (12/12/90)
I am interested in buying a number of modems and would like to know:
* The cheapest 1200/2400 baud modem(s)
(external and internal for PC & Mac)
* People's experience (pro & con) with these cheap modems.
(are there any quality problems or reasons why i should not go
with cheap modems if i don't need any "bells and whistles"?)
thanks,
andrew <currie@boulder.colorado.edu>mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) (12/12/90)
In article <1990Dec11.224634.19485@csn.org> currie@alumni.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Currie) writes: > (are there any quality problems or reasons why i should not go > with cheap modems if i don't need any "bells and whistles"?) "Cheap" modems frequently are cheaper because of short-cuts in the design and materials. One case where this causes trouble is when trying to connect to a high-speed modem (USR HST and Dual Standard a case in point) which try to negotiate a high-speed link first (or some form of error correction/compression) which the "cheap" modem misinterprets as a standard carrier and then fails to negotiate a link. I see this frequently with 2400 bps "cheap" modems and my USR DS. This is a BIG problem if the modem is used dial-up; if dial-out then just add extra ","'s until the high-speed modem has given up and fallen back to 2400. -- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 Under construction: mikes@sir-alan@cica.indiana.edu