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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: bobz@kirwaido.trystero.com (Bob Zwarick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Modem recommendation for PPP svc Date: 27 Jul 1994 09:54:33 GMT Organization: ISV Lines: 25 Message-ID: <315asp$o9t@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3149sp$46l@access1.digex.net> <michaelv.775295018@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Reply-To: bobz@kirwaido.trystero.com (Bob Zwarick) NNTP-Posting-Host: kirwaido.trystero.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02 In <michaelv.775295018@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In <3149sp$46l@access1.digex.net> brogan@access1.digex.net (John Brogan) writes: > >>Does anyone have a recommendation for a 14.4 modem for a ppp >>service? I'm not sure of the differences between a ppp connection >>and a Zmodem download.....but that's why I'm askin'! > >I just bought two 28.8k modems for my PPP line. They're Practical >Peripherals PM288MT II V.FC modems. I couldn't be more delighted with >them. These things are SOOOOOOOOO fast! And they seem a little >better built than the Taiwan-special 14.4's you see floating around a >lot these days. >... Our experience with the PP 28.8 is not quite as good. We experienced random disconnects. A pair of USR 28.8 Sportsters performed more relaibly on this connection. ---- R. M. Zwarick ------------------------------------------------------------ "If a plant cannot live according to it's nature, it dies; and so a man." -- Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------