dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP (D. Carpenter) (08/18/89)
I just placed an order for a NeXT, and the day after doing this my Multi-Tech modem died. Does anyone out there have any recommendations for a modem that would work well with the NeXT? 9600 baud would be nice (if affordable); 2400 baud is essential. Any experiences with cabling, Kermit, uucp, etc. that anyone would be willing to share would also be appreciated. Please E-mail me, unless you feel there is a broader interest in this topic. My machine will not be on a network, so a good modem and communications software will be pretty important. Thanks in advance -- =============================================================== David Carpenter dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP St. Joseph's University dcarpent%sjuvax.sju.edu@relay.cs.net Philadelphia, PA 19131 ST_JOSEPH@HVRFORD.BITNET
chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley) (08/18/89)
This is probably of interest to a few people out there... In article <2169@sjuvax.UUCP> dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP (D. Carpenter) writes: >I just placed an order for a NeXT, and the day after >doing this my Multi-Tech modem died. Does anyone out >there have any recommendations for a modem that would >work well with the NeXT? Even though there is no support for trailblazers, a trailblazer plus work very well with the Next. I was quite worried when I purchased it because I didn't have much faith in the cube's serial port throughput. You see, I used a 2400 baud modem for three months and during EVERY transfer there were uart overruns and a huge number of retries. Strangely enough, I have never gotten an overrun at 19200 baud. Another nifty feature of the trailblazer is that you can set the machine<->modem interface to 19200 no matter what the actual modem to modem speed is. It helps alot with getty which I have had many problems with. >Any experiences >with cabling, Kermit, uucp, etc. that anyone would be >willing to share would also be appreciated. You can get kermit from next archives at cs.orst.edu or j.cc.purdue.edu. Soon, there will be a mailserver set up on my machine so that people without access to an internet site can get ahold of some of the PD stuff floating around. I'll make an announcement here when that is ready later. >My machine will not be on a network, so >a good modem and communications software will be pretty important. That is one area of this system that I am incredibly disappointed with right now. MOST of the people who buy these damn things, including me, are not on some huge university network. They have totally ignored the need for telecommunications other than through ethernet. Right now, you can't even use the same modem for dialing in and dialing out without becoming the superuser everytime you want to poll you mail connection. (I have found a way around this but, it is such a kludge, I'm emabarassed to talk about it). Not only do they need to add some kind of port arbitrator (acucntrl???), but they also need to provide something with more functionality than tip for calling other systems! Chris -- Chris Whatley chari@nueces.cactus.org P.O. Box 50254 !nueces!chari@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78763 chari@walt.cc.utexas.edu 512/499-0475