Request for opinions on 28.8 voice-capable modems

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On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, His name was Matthew Marjanovic... wrote:


Although it's a little bit off-topic:

> I know the champion of vgetty is the ZyXel U1496, in any of its incarnations.
> 
> However, I'd like to move up to a 28.8kbps model.  Are there any 28.8 models
>  with voice capability and stability that match the 1496?  
> 
> The Elite 2864, ZyXel's latest offering, has been getting severely panned on
>  the Net, so I'm feeling a bit of trepidation about putting the investment
>  into it.
> What are people's experiences, if any, with the 2864?  Any other 28.8 modems?

Have no bad experience with it. Received the Elite, pluged wires and cables
in, switched it on and it workes fine.
Ok, there are some errors in the software, but I can live with them. Which
piece of (complex) software is error-free ?
Replacing the firmware with newer ones also makes no problems.

There are some differences between 2864 and 1496, so you can't use it with
the given vgetty as an answering machine, but the new vgetty will do it and
it's not so hard to patch the old one.

Martin
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Martin Seine                                       martin@erde.gun.de
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