On (17 Nov 95) Bill Grimsley wrote to Rod Speed...



 BG> Rod, at 15:28 on Nov 16 1995, you wrote to Paul Edwards...



RS> You do realise Bill works for the crowd flogging them dont you ?



 BG> Er, not any more, Rod.  :)



 BG> However, I could tell you lots of stories about some of our corporate

 BG> clients who were fed up with Netcomms and Maestros (et al), trying to poll

 BG> their world-wide branches for email with very little success, and who

 BG> changed to Couriers in desperation.  Boy, were they happy with the

 BG> results...



 BG> It ain't FRZry any more - the USR Courier really is a superior modem at

 BG> this point in time.  Undeniably observed fact.  Seems you DO get what you

 BG> pay for.



i dont know that i really get all this modem stuff. i've got the

cheapest 144fm that i ever saw (thats why i bought it), it has a

rockwell chipset, and that seems to be considered by the experts as low

as you can go, but i cant remember the last time that i had a failed

connect, and the transfer rates seem as good as any. i dont use

interstate connections much, but i have done modem and fax connects to

the us with no problem. 



at work we have a whole network of maestros with pcs in every state, and

we use carbon copy to look up databases remotely, and transfer data

without any problem. we use the same maestros (at 2400 synchronous) for

the mainframes to dial home to the us, again without problem other than

a higher than usual fallout rate (approx 15% have died in 3.5 years). we

are also using motorola fast talk 2s again rockwell very successfully,

although they dont work very well on our super duper digital pabx, 9600

connects to tymnet rarely succeed, and 14.4 downloads average 1 error per

10k, but put on an outside line they are perfect. all in all, we have

about 40 rockwell modems, and we could not ask much more out of them. 



we also have multi-modem IIs supplied by an american company whos

products we look after, they dial home to america via tymnet quite

successfully but sometimes have trouble when the us support people try

to dial in. they always work when i dial in locally though. the company

though, swear by them as the only modem that they have found that will

work anywhere in the world.



so, if i have $600 i'll put it toward another 16 meg of memory, much

better value imho (:



                        Keith



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