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- From: vclant12@interserv.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic 28.8 Modem - Anyone used one/opinions?
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 18:41:14 GMT
- Organization: InterServ News Service
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- > Say an ad for a Cirrus Logic 28.8 internal for $99. Piqued my interest but
- > didn't know Cirrus Logic made a modem. Checked their home page and only saw
- > info on chips they make for built-in modems. Anyone have information that
- > he/she is willing to share about pros and cons?
-
- Cirrus Logic chips have a tendency to achieve their relative maturity after
- spending a noticeable time in the field, among the users, at least their
- 14.4 families proved to be low-performers with more than a fair share of bugs.
- As an example, they chose to sell voice equipped modems at nearly no/no at all
- price increase versus their data+fax only. That was not a mission of
- people-loving marketing, rather than a necessity caused by a very low performing
- voice features. The speakerphone feature, as an example, was very susceptible to
- howling, which in turn necessitated a significant decrease on microphone and
- speaker gains (to the point of forcing the speakers on both ends to grab the
- handset and continue the conversation via conventional means).
-
- Cirrus has been underselling others, even bottom feeders, for a long time. Given
- their handicap of having no silicon fab, one can only wonder what short cuts
- have been made in design to make it profitable at this price.
-
- If you can waste $100, do so but inform us about the result. In my opinion, even
- Donald Trump has better things to spend a crispy $100 bill on than this gamble...
-
- regards, vl.
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