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- From: davisw@primenet.com (Wayne Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Supra and their technical support is absolutely horrible
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 08:12:00 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
- Sender: root@primenet.com
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- References: <DLEMuA.3zr@iglou.com> <4dooad$qlm@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <4dq3vu$fa7@donatello.leonardo.net>
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- In article <4dq3vu$fa7@donatello.leonardo.net>,
- jhough@fishnet.net (John Hough) wrote:
- >christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
- >
- >>In article <DLEMuA.3zr@iglou.com>, thomas@netbox.com (Thomas Campbell)
- writes:
- >
- >>|> I've had a Supra modem for over 5 years now.
- >
- >>It's probably four years for mine. Does anybody know when Supra
- >>introduced their 14.4 FaxModem?
- >
- >>|> Now, for reality. I've had this modem nearly a month. I installed
- >>|> it, and my Windows 95 (I happen to like the OS and if you have
- >>|> something to say about it keep it to yourself) box recognized it as a
- >>|> Serial Mouse. A Serial Mouse for pete's sake!
- >
- >>[ Tale of woe from Supra Tech Support deleted. ]
- >
- >>I think you should be calling Microsoft tech support. It's their
- >>software that is getting all confused about what's plugged into the
- >>serial port.
- >
- >I had a similar problem with a different modem, turned out the inf
- >file for it did not support enough irqs (they had overrides in the
- >file). I disabled com2 in the system and everything worked great
- >after that. Just an idea that may work for the original poster.
- >
- >John
- >
-
- I've owned 2 Supra's, and they have performed FLAWLESSLY for me.
- I currently have the SupraFAXmodem 29.9 External and LOVE it.
-
- So, it boils down to: "different strokes, for different folks"
- You buy and use what works best for your applications.
-
- Wayne
-