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- From: markp@cranham.cc.earlham.edu (Mark Pearson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Digicom vs Supra - flames wanted
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.180026.21116@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:00:26 GMT
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- OK, we have decided to try out a Zyxel 1496 modem.
- Now for the comparison.
- I'm all for a Digicom Scout+. My boss is all for a Supra.
- The only major drawback to Digicom that I know of is that apparently if one
- connects the telephone to the PHONE jack on the modem and the wall socket to
- the LINE jack one cannot get the modem to dial a telephone number for one.
- Since I regularly use Info Select to dial my numbers and I need to have the
- phone connected via the modem this is a major inconvenience. Any comments?
-
- A major advantage has got to be responses via comp.dcom.modems. I don't see any
- technical support for Supra modems that way.
-
- Second question - there must be another!
- I have been following the threads about 16550AFN UARTs etc. Either I missed the
- following or it wasn't said, but :
-
- At what baud does a 16550 become desireable?
- For example, if you're using V32 & MNP 5 then your DTE speed might be 19,200.
- Does this warrant a 16550? I guess that using V32 and V42.bis to give 38.4 Kb
- would require it. We're talking here of a bog standard 16MHz 386sx machine.
-
- I'm also confused conceptually about whether internal modems handle the data
- stream differently from external ones. Any pointers?
-
- Mark H Pearson Coordinator of Academic Computing
- Earlham College, Richmond, In 47374
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