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- From: haijin@qni.com (HowieZowie)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What do you think of Boca modems?
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 23:22:26 GMT
- Organization: Suba Communications
- Message-ID: <4ebnki$n55@suba01.suba.com>
- References: <4e5mvb$7lg@gnu.mat.uc.pt> <direwolf-2601961316550001@datura.shout.net>
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- direwolf@shout.net (T. D. Wolf) wrote:
-
- >In article <4e5mvb$7lg@gnu.mat.uc.pt>, eq3ppp@eq10.eq.uc.pt (Pedro Vasco
- >Almeida) wrote:
-
- >> What do you think about Boca modems? Do they perform well?
- >> What about software support?
- >>
- >> I am thinking of buying Boca Soundexpression 14.4 Vsp
- >> (does anyone have one of this?), and I would like to
- >> hear some opinions about performance and pricing about it.
- >> Does it support caller-ID?
- >>
- >A colleague recently bought a Motorola modem after two years of failing
- >to get his Boca modem to work. He's been through five of them (and it
- >hasn't been easy -- they usually lose his returns for a couple of weeks
- >before finally shipping out a replacement). I've heard too many other
- >horror stories about them to ever be inclined to buy their products
- >(they used to make good memory boards in the original ibm pc/xt era).
- Glue and Go modems......for 50 bucks more you could get a good modem.
- I made the mistake of looking at price as my main criteria when I
- bought my previous modem (PowerCom Aceex 28.8) . After a month I
- bought the one I knew I should have gotten the first time: USRobotics.
- Now if I could only unload this 120.00 turkey to some unsuspecting
- boob.....
-
-