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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR V.34 33.6 Modem Failures
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:53:35 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <30f7d023.4564283@news.insync.net>
- References: <4d7k65$91h@cynic.portal.ca>
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- curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote:
-
- >I recently put up seven of the new USR 33.6 Sportsters on my terminal
- >server. As it turns out, two of them seem bad, and one is a bit
- >iffy. The two bad ones will consistently see a lot of retrains
- >and a steadily declining link speed, declining to 21K or so within
- >a half hour, if they don't cut the user off first. The iffy one
- >did the decline, but managed to get itself back up to 28.8 when
- >talking to another 28.8 Sportster, although it still retrained
- >every couple of minutes and had quite a few Blerrs.
-
- One might think to ask **WHY** you're using consumer grade Sportsters on
- a commercial central site host system????????????
-
- You wouldn't pull a 28-ft cabin crusier down the highway with a Hyundai,
- would you?
-
- Why do you suppose USR makes (and sells tons of) their high-end Couriers
- and rack systems if the Sportster is (its/their) equal?
-
- I'm not trying to imply that the Sportster is a piece of shit. Quite the
- contrary. FOR THE MONEY, the Sportster is one of the best CONSUMER
- GRADE modems available. However, if performance is more important than
- cost, there are several better modems from which to choose. But you have
- to decide what level of performance you want to provide and how much
- you're willing to spend to achieve that milestone. Remember the story
- of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf?
-
- Rumor has it that Multi-Tech Systems once considered building an
- el-cheapo rack system consisting of their low-end consumer grade ZDX
- models. Fortunately intellectual reasoning prevailed and the product
- never made it past the prototype stage. You don't pull a freight train
- with a motor from a washing machine.
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