Re: modems (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:01:48 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jonathan Brown shaped the electrons to say...
>they are the worst I have ever seen. We use Zoom 28.8 externals. They're
>great, only you have to set the PM to 9600 and let the modem kick that up.

Zoom is the *WORST* modem brand I have EVER seen. I'm shocked an ISP would
ever use them.

BTW, if you set a PM to 9600 - that is it, the modem can't 'kick that up'.
The PM will not talk faster than it is set to talk. So you are creating a
major bottleneck. I hope none of your users are doing PPP, they must
suffer miserably at 9600. They may get a 24000 carrier, but the data
speed will be stuck at *9600* since the slowest point wins.

-MZ

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