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- Path: katiska.clinet.fi!usenet
- From: narkia@clinet.fi (Matti Narkia)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster 28.8 problems
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:05:04 GMT
- Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland.
- Message-ID: <4ee404$t5a@katiska.clinet.fi>
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- ballard@atl.sofkin.ca (Rick Ballard) wrote:
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- >curt@teleport.com (Curt...) wrote:
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- >>David Huang <davehuang@value.net> wrote:
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- >>> I have had an internal USR Sportster 28.8 for about a year now. It has
- >>> not been working to great for me. On some BBS's I call, it works okay.
- >>> But on other places such as my internet service provider, it almost never
- >>> connects. It oftens connects for a few seconds then drops. If it does
- >>> keep a good connection, it will slow down to a crawl and then drop. I
- >>> also have a Sportster 14.4 that works with no problems. Please e-mail me
- >>> with suggestions.
- >>>
-
- >I had a sportster 33.6 that exhibited the same connection problems. I
- >discovered that it would only work when it was cold. At room temp it
- >would connect for maybe 30 seconds right after I turned it on, then it
- >would not connect again. If I put it in the freezer for half an hour
- >it would work perfectly for about 5 minutes. USR (via Keating Tech
- >here in Canada) is sending me a replacement.
-
- Strange. I have an external USR Sporster 28.8, which used to
- disconnect after few minutes use, if it had stayed powered off before
- use, i.e was cold. Now I keep the power on 24 hours a day - and
- strangely enough - hardly any disconnects. Could somebody explain
- that?
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