Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT
Daniel Politeski
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Tim Tanguay
(Daniel Politeski) writes:
>So it seems there are no problems with the FXMT, I never see any
>postings...I just have to say I have one and have had no problems at all,
>any other compliments or problems with it? I mean the Practical
>Peripherals 14400FXMT. I can't help but recommend it. I have tried
>the Supra 14.4 and the Twincom 14.4 and neither can deliver the hassle
>free speed that this one can. P.S. I don't work for or with Practical
>Peripherals.
I have to agree with you 100% on that one. I was worried about buying
an inexpensive modem hearing all the problems with Supras, USRs, etc. but
I decided to buy the PPI 14400FXMT anyways. I am glad I did! No problems
with the cable (for a MAC), it worked fine out of the box and I was connected
at 14400 with v42.bis right away. I get 3000+ cps on noncompressed file
downloads and 1650cps on compressed files which is on par with other
modems.
For the MAC the included software stinks, but I don't use it anyways.
I can connect via MacSLIP with this modem which works well. I highly
recommend this modem for MAC users especially. They even mention the
MAC in the manual and have factory installed settings for the MAC.
Just my 2 cents. :)
Tim Tanguay
ttan...@nwu.edu
Philipp Enrique T. Lim,,,
A friend of mine is shopping for a modem, but he can't decide on either
the Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT or the USR Sportster 14.4k
modem/fax. I think they're both on the same price range.
Which of the two is better?
Thanks.
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James Deibele
>In article <a09212.743232736@giant> a09...@giant.rsoft.bc.ca
> (Daniel Politeski) writes:
>>So it seems there are no problems with the FXMT, I never see any
>>postings...I just have to say I have one and have had no problems at all,
>>any other compliments or problems with it? I mean the Practical
>>Peripherals 14400FXMT. I can't help but recommend it. I have tried
>>the Supra 14.4 and the Twincom 14.4 and neither can deliver the hassle
>>free speed that this one can. P.S. I don't work for or with Practical
>>Peripherals.
>I have to agree with you 100% on that one. I was worried about buying
Has anybody used these with a UNIX box? Specifically a Sun running
SunOS 4.1.3? I hadn't seen anything negative about the Optimas and bit
on their advertising ("I've had it with junky modems!" or a similar
headline).
I had purchased 4 Hayes Optimas which arrived last week. One of them was
basically DOA. I have problems with the other 3 when someone just hangs
up rather than logs out properly. One of them I've gotten to work by
converting it to &K2 - that is, XON/XOFF flow control. The other two
don't work properly no matter what I do.
The trouble seems to be that they send XON to the system, which doesn't
recognize that anybody has hung up. There are three things that happen,
all of them bad: the modems don't answer; the next person in sends an
XOFF and the modem drops carrier on them; or the next person sends an
XOFF and gets access as the previous caller.
I have six other brands of modems online. That's too many, and I was
hoping to standardize on a reliable, inexpensive V.32bis modem. None of
the other modems seem to have any problems at the usual settings (&K3,
&Q5, &S0, etc.). All the other modems, including a Telebit T3000 and
Supra V.32bis, seem to work great on RTS/CTS flow control.
As it is, I'm looking into a Digicom rack system since the modems seem
to be available for a decent price. Where I work they have a couple of
Telebit T9000 racks with WorldBlazers. Nice setup, but it lists for
$20,000 ... and they probably got it for "only" $15,000.
Anyway Hayes does <NOT> seem to be the modem to buy if you want
something to work with UNIX. If their tech support can get these
running properly, I'll say so. Otherwise, I'm going to send the modems
back. They have that Hayes name on them, were really easy to setup and
had "good" defaults for most settings, but if they don't work, they
don't work.