SUMMARY: cheap 9600 baud modem available

From: Ajay Shah (ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 30 1991 - 22:45:52 CST


A few days ago, I posted this question:

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I got a catalog from Damark recently. It contains this external
modem:

        - Brand name Okidata
        - fully Hayes compatible
        - auto answering
        - dialing pre-programmed numbers
        - 9600 baud: 110, 300, 1200 or 2400, 4800 or 9600 bits/s in full duplex
        - MNP levels 2 thru 5
        - Shares a line with your phone
        - Compatible with: V.32 with V.42bis., Bell System (Western
                Electric) 212A and 103 modems as well as Hayes AT
                commands and registers
        - factory new

Bottom line: $269 + 8.5 for S&H. Which sounds very good to me.

Is there a catch in this spec, as far as you can tell? I know
little about modems, but expect to need a 9600 baud modem soon.
I will need to hook it up into a PC right now and a Sun later
(yes, I'm moving up in life). Will there be any hassles making
Unix deal with this modem? Through Unix, it'll be used for
dialing up and for UUCP.
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Since then I've got around 15 replies. Most of them said "sounds
great to me; tell me more!". One reply warned me as follows:

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From: julian@bongo.info.com (Julian Macassey)

        Yes, it will work with a Sun. But unless you are going to have
the Sun only talk with MS-DOG machines, you will find it can't talk
very well to other Unix machines (Except at V.22Bis -2400 Baud). Unix
machines use Telebit Trailblazers talking PEP, not V.32

        Plus, the modem may have configuration problems causing much
grief. If you really want V.32, get a name brand modem. It costs more,
but frustrates less.
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For the rest it looks great. I placed an order today. The
t.number is 800-729-9000 and the order number for this modem is
B-380-194321.

I now have questions. In the short run, I will use this modem
to dialup into USC Unix systems with a 386 PC (I know USC modems
support MNP 5 and V32 with v42bis). Do I need any special software
to make the best of it? Or will mere procomm/kermit do fine?
Are there config files to setup for these? Version numbers on
the software I need to lookout for?

I've never been able to make a download work with procomm. Is
this a known problem, or a glitch in my version+setup?

Thanks,

        -ans.

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                             The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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