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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR 33.6 / Crappy Tech Support
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:54:49 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4eovg9$16q6@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4eba0t$sce@berlin.infomatch.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com
- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4eba0t$sce@berlin.infomatch.com>,
- John Chapman <john@infomatch.com> wrote:
-
- | I thought the Creative Labs tech support was bad, but USR
- | is beginning to get on my bad side.
-
- Welcome to the club. Not exclusive.
-
- | Recently we received 5 of the new 33.6 externals, and
- | placed them in use. These modems are constantly freezing on us
- | and losing their connections to the COM port. The DTR light
- | goes out on these modems, and it is not possible
- | to use a terminal to connect to them until they are reset.
- | These modems are in use on a Unix system connected to
- | RisComm/Digiboard serial boards.
- |
- | The strange thing is is that we have lots of the older 28.8
- | Sportsters, and we never have any problems. None of the
- | new 33.6 modems work reliably. An ati4 of the modems looks like:
-
- | Thanks very much for any suggestions.
-
- With the V.34+ ROM some of the register setting changed. I have no
- record of which one, check the Navias web page, I think he has it
- there. I would scrutinize the old and new meaning of each and every
- register to see if USR has (a) changed the rules so loyal customers
- lose, (b) shipped you a whole batch of bad modems, or (c) you just
- have bad karma (see my sig).
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Too many improbable things have happened to me, both good and bad.
- I'm living on the edge of the bell shaped curve.
-