Beware the Telebit T18pc

[scott e garfinkle]

In case you were considering the t18pc, think about this.  I bought one and
discovered after much wasted efort that the (soldered-on) 8250 UART was
keeping my throughput at around 70 cps.  The only solution was to replace
it with another UART (I chose the 16550, of course).  Well, after a year,
it started developing strange problems with responding to AT commands.
Seems possible that a trace was damaged.  Telebit wants $290 to repair the
board because of the modification (otherwise they get $150, by the way).

Also, in case you were wondering, the T18PC is not upgradeable to V.32
capability.

	-Scott E. Garfinkle

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