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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is 33.6 only available for USR?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 16:24:33 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4eav81$174s@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4dd14b$odp@grid.direct.ca> <4e28if$ftrq@navajo.gate.net> <DLpyKr.BKI@freenet.carleton.ca> <4e8g9p$psm@seminole.gate.net>
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- In article <4e8g9p$psm@seminole.gate.net>, doug haire <dhaire@gate.net> wrote:
-
- | Not having ever owned a Sportster, I can't say what the reasons are
- | behind the complaints. I do, however, see quite a number of them. I also
- | notice that most of the complaints are the result of lack of knowledge
- | about configuration. Part of the blame for that has to go to USR for
- | their poor manual on the Sportster. Much of the problem is lack of
- | understanding by the purchasers. I see this lack of knowledge all over
- | the place. I run a BBS and you would not believe the number of callers
- | who are unable to set up their modems and comm programs properly. Someday
- | we'll have true "Plug & Play" where all you need ot do is plug the unit
- | in and it works to its optimum but we don't have it now. These are not
- | like kitchen appliances, after all. I would bet that the average
- | Sportster buyer also has a VCR that is flashing "12:00" right now...
-
- That's why USR has &F1 and &F2, and if people who do outgoing only
- would start with those instead of playing with bad ideas posted on
- the net they would have less trouble. USR is the only modem I have
- ever used which had the defaults close enough to use. Actually
- Telebit had some of the configs right on, at least WorldBlazer for
- UUCP.
-
- There are cases where you will need to set things beyond the
- defaults, but in most cases there are used to talk to individual
- broken modems, or over bad connections, or for use with incoming
- calls.
- --
- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Davidsen's first rule of system administration:
- He learns to swim fastest who is thrown in the deepest water.
-