June 1995 / BYTE Lab Product Report

32 V.34 Modems Answer The Call Inside Communications	What do you want from a modem? Speed? Interoperability? Reliability? Read on--all the information on 28.8-Kbps external and PC Card modems is right here. - by Jim Kane and Helen Holzbaur
The Fastest, The Slickest, And The Friendliest External V.34 Modems WEIGHTING FOR BEST OVERALL AND LOW COST (less then $400) WEIGHTING FOR BEST DATA PRACTICAL PERIPHERALS WINS HANDS DOWN DATA THROUGHPUT, PLAIN AND SIMPLE EVADING THE E VER-ELUSIVE STREET PRICE The Shape of Modems to Come Practical Peripherals ProClass 288LCD Practical Peripherals ProClass 288LCD Maxtech/GVC XM288E Voice And Data: Can They Share The Same Line? The Multi Tech MT2834PCS-ISI SVD modem.	With the advent of the ITU's V.34 specification, the standard Windows 3.1 serial-port communications driver becomes hopelessly outmoded.
How We Tested Modem Test Equipment TAS Series II Modem Tester TAS Series II Modem Tester Hayes ESP board	We received identical pairs of modems from each vendor and subjected them to seven different telephone line conditions and five kinds of data transfer tasks.
Pick A PC Card WEIGHTING FOR BEST OVERALL AND LOW COST (less then $400) WEIGHTING FOR BEST DATA LOOKING FOR HIGH SPEED AND INTEROPERABILITY? FAST DATA MOVER Practical Peripherals ProClass PCMCIA 288 with EZ-Port Hayes Optima 288 V.34 & Fax Make Analog Connections on Digital Phone Lines Sans Destruction Konexx Konnector Model 111 Modem Saver	For the first time, our modem testing has expanded into the world of PCMCIA.
Honorable Mentions Practical Peripherals ProClass 288LCD The Telebit FastBlazer 8840 PC Card EZjacks, EZ-Ports, and XJacks U.S. Robotics Sportster	The Practical Peripherals ProClass 288LCD The Practical Peripherals ProClass 288LCD, our winner in the Overall and Data categories, sports the largest LCD panel.
What Does It Really Mean?	If you have delayed purchasing a modem until V.34 arrived, you may find the information on the modem box akin to reading the side of a cereal box (you know there's a lot in the product, but you aren't quite sure what it all means).

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