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- From: thanatos@hyperion.wright.edu (Terry Chlebek)
- Subject: Re: Could somebody tell me the quality of Boca modems?
- Message-ID: <C08FLw.3J3@hyperion.wright.edu>
- Organization: Wright State University
- References: <05HowB1w165w@willard.UUCP> <NlNRrAZGBh107h@carlos>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:13:08 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- carlos@carlos writes:
-
- >In <05HowB1w165w@willard.UUCP> matttrem@willard.UUCP (Matthew Trembley) writes:
-
- >>I a VERY good deal on a Boca modem recently for the same price as the
- >>other Zoom modem I found.
- >>The deal was a 14.4 Boca modem(internal) with all the kinds of
- >>compression and correction with speeds up to 57,600 for 220$. Although
- >>it didn't say anything about it containing a UART(whatever that is, but I
- >>thought it might be important since it is talked about so much here. I
- >>read it all but... oh well...).
-
- >Briefly...
-
- >The BOCA has a 16550 installed on the internal version.
-
- This is not correct. The internal boca doesn't have ANY UART installed.
- It EMULATES only the 16450. I have one and it can't reliably transfer
- at 14.4k in Windows 3.1 if you try to do anything else while the
- transfer is occuring.
-
- >
- >It's a quirky modem based on the Rockwell chipset. Try to purchase
- >one with ROM version 1.27 ( or contact BOCA for a freebie upgrade)
- >
- >It works well with most comm programs, but is flaky with certain
- >fax programs, (namely ECLIPSE FAX), and won't connect to certain
- >v.32 modems (mainly older ZOOM's)
- >
- >Caveat Emptor! ( Latin for... Buyer Beware!)
-
- Definitely! If I had it to do over I'd spend the extra bucks and get a
- ZyXel or USR.
- >
- >Hope this helps..
-
- >--
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- --
- Terry Chlebek
- thanatos@hyperion.wright.edu
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