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- From: John White <jwhite@fishnet.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is 33.6 only available for USR?
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:53:29 -0800
- Organization: Leonardo Internet
- Message-ID: <30FCE339.36B9@fishnet.net>
- References: <4dd14b$odp@grid.direct.ca> <4ddchf$c4i@shellx.best.com> <30FA9B32.4862@fishnet.net> <4dh7j3$81i@shellx.best.com>
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- Matt Fox wrote:
- >
- > In article <30FA9B32.4862@fishnet.net>, jwhite@fishnet.net says...
- > >
- > >Matt Fox wrote:
- > >>
- > >> In article <4dd14b$odp@grid.direct.ca>, alleung@direct.ca says...
- > >> >
- > >> >Hi, i am just wondering if this 33.6 connection is only available
- > for
- > >> >USR modems, or can other modems accomplish it via an upgrade?
- > >> >
- > >> >For example, i have a Cardinal 28.8 Ext. Fax modem, can i get 33.6
- > >> via
- > >> >a flash BIOS upgrade?
- > >> >
- > >> >Thanks for all the help.
- > >> >
- > >>
- > >> no rockwell based modem on the market even with flash rom is
- > capable
- > >> of being upgraded to 33.6 and the only modems on the market capable
- > >> of 33.6 are ones that dont use rockwell datapumps , like the
- > courier
- > >> sportster, at&t paradyne and penril modems
- > >
- > >
- > >No Problem! My testing shows NO IMPROVEMENT with the 10/18 ROM
- > >used in the latest Sportster. It NEVER ONCE has got even a 28.8
- > >connection. Other modems I use such as Supra, PPI get and MAINTAIN
- > 28.8
- >
- > maybe your rockwell modems are broken? i was like taking about
- > courier modems and it like really sucks when someone butts in and
- > responds something about sporetsters when its like not really
- > the subject? Havbe you ever tried to disable the 3429 symbol
- > rate on the usr or use mnp instead? cause most of your prized
- > rockwell based modems have 2 key incompatabilities in those
- > areas..
- >
- > oh sure.. i get it.. if you find a miniscule math bug well like yell
- > to death at intel to fix it. if we find a problem in sportsters
- > or couriers well get em fixed. but!! if we find problems (BUGS)
- > in masked rockwell datrapumps... watch out world, cuase well just
- > sit on our ass and do nothing!
-
-
- Nonsense!!! Yes there are some significant problems with Rockwell
- chipsets but reputable modem manufacturers (PPI, Supra) have
- refined the code to the point where they are microscopic in comparison
- to the bugs I was referring to in the Sportster. You seem to beleive
- that if a modem does not use a Rockwell chipset it will ALWAYS be
- better. Many hundreds of hours of my testing with Courier, Sportster
- PPI, Supra etc. show this is not the case. My Courier with the latest
- 33.6 code only marginally outperforms my PPI LCD. On a connection to a
- provider using Courier upgraded to 33k I achieve 28.8 about 80% of the
- time. With the LCD I achieve 28.8 50% of the time. Now 33k is really a
- big deal isn't it?
-
- I was simply stating that from my testing 33.6k V34+ simply has not
- shown itself to be a big boost in performance and was saying
- that it is not a problem to not have 33.6K especially as implemented
- now. Possibly in the future when code becomes more refined we will start
- to see more performance improvements.
-
- I recommend you do some real world side by side comparison testing
- as I have done rather than simply conclude "If it ain't Rockwell It will
- always be better"
-