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- v.32 compatabilities
-
- In the last notice I wrote about the Hayes v.42, I said that it was
- compatible with any standard v.32 modem. This is incorrect for the time being.
- The Hayes uses ping-pong half-duplex v.32, which is not compatable with any CCITT
- standard v.32 modem. The modem may tell you that it has connected at 9600 bps,
- but this will probably be a 2400 bps connect. I don't know whether or not Hayes'
- upgrade to the v.42, when they plan to implement v.42bis file compression, will
- also include standard v.32. It is rumored that standard v.32 will be available
- in a chip set from Rockwell in the near future which will the bring the price of
- a v.32 modem below $1000. Also, a standard for ping-pong half duplex v.32 is
- being worked on by CCITT, called v.34, that will cover theoretical speeds up to
- 19.2K bps.
-
- If you need a true v.32 modem, your best bet is probably NOT to go with
- Hayes for the time being. Both Telebit and US Robotics make good standard v.32
- modems. The least expensive 300-9600 bps modem that also supports v.32, is the
- NEC America N9631, which costs $995, or the Bytcom Strata 9600 baud, which costs
- $899. If you don't want 300 bps, the cheapest would be Concord Data Systems'
- DialAccess 296, and it supports v.32 at 9600, for $795. Telebit and USR are
- large companies with big techinical support and such, but their modems cost
- considerably more. The USR Dual Standard, which supports USR's proprietary
- protocol as well as v.32 at 9600, costs $1595, and if you don't want USR's
- proprietary protocol the price is $1495 for the Courier v.32. USR's proprietary
- protocol goes at a theoretical 14.4k bps, and has a fairly large installed user
- base. Telebit's T2500 supports v.32 and a proprietary protocol, and goes for
- $1695. Telebit's proprietary protocol goes at a theoretical 19.2K bps, but has
- a fairly small installed user base compared to USR. By the way, Hayes DOES make
- a standard v.32 modem, but has no error correction (all the others listed above
- have at least MNP), no compression (all the others have at least MNP-5), and
- costs $1999. It's called the Smartmodem 9600.
-
- A few of the things the Hayes V9600 v.42 has going for it is future
- compatability. The V9600 is one of the few modems to support LAP-M, the CCITT's
- official standard error checking, as well as MNP 2-4, CCITT's secondary error
- checking. The new v.42bis, CCITT's official data compression, can only be
- utilized on top of LAP-M, and cannot be used with MNP. Unfortunately, there is
- already a large installed base of MNP-5 users; which is MNP's data compression
- scheme. The modem would be perfect if it supported true v.32 as well as MNP-5,
- but it doesn't, and costs $1299 (Less than both USR's and Telebit's, but less
- modem also).
-
- This data is partially taken from MacWorld, July, 1989, "Communicating
- at Speed", and partially data from my experience.
-
- official list of compatable modems with a Hayes V9600 v.42 at 9600:
- other Hayes V9600 v.42's.
-