Re: AOL, wasn't it originally AppleLink?
Anyway, my Wowwwww came in 1995 when I got a SupraFAXModem 288 to replace the Zoom 2400 I'd been using previously. Much quicker, especially when I used the AOL over PPP modem script. Heck, even the 2400 baud modem was faster accessing AOL when I used that. I did discover that I couldn't get reliable 28.8Kbps connections, so I had to run it as a V.32bis 14.4 modem. That continued even after I upgraded the firmware to the 33.6 firmware.
I actually didn't have much in the way of issues running 56K on either my Mac or my father's old homebuilt PC. Both machines were running USRobotics Courier modems. One of which got updated to V.92. The other wasn't updateable, since it was an older revision. That said, I will never go back to dialup, unless I have no other option at the time.
-J
Anyway, my Wowwwww came in 1995 when I got a SupraFAXModem 288 to replace the Zoom 2400 I'd been using previously. Much quicker, especially when I used the AOL over PPP modem script. Heck, even the 2400 baud modem was faster accessing AOL when I used that. I did discover that I couldn't get reliable 28.8Kbps connections, so I had to run it as a V.32bis 14.4 modem. That continued even after I upgraded the firmware to the 33.6 firmware.
I actually didn't have much in the way of issues running 56K on either my Mac or my father's old homebuilt PC. Both machines were running USRobotics Courier modems. One of which got updated to V.92. The other wasn't updateable, since it was an older revision. That said, I will never go back to dialup, unless I have no other option at the time.
-J