Re: 56k modems (fwd)

Tim Flavin (tim@i1.net)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:07:14 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Brian Kramer wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
> But once again this is a product where it's gonna have to deal with all
> sorts of different modems, crap and otherwise calling it. It should be
> able to handle a large majority of them, especially any usr modem since
> they are the most popular. They obviously didn't test all of them.
> I don't care if there are a 100 different varieties of them. These are
> $15K units, not $200 modems.

I do agree with your statement, except that PM3's are $249 a port, so they
themselves are very close to $200 modems :)

>
> > Yeah, but OTOH when these same user's crap modems connect just fine to our
> > analog hunt groups and even older versions of ComOS it does make the PM3
> > modems kinda crappy doesn't it?
>
> > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> > > The point of all this is, there are lots of crap modems. Just because
> > > the new PM3 modems don't deal well with some crap modems doesn't make
> > > them crap.
>
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