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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster 33.6K AA glitch!!! (repost)
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 00:17:52 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4ep0rg$upi@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4elvje$sp1@news-f.iadfw.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com
- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4elvje$sp1@news-f.iadfw.net>, Neuros <Neuros@airmail.net> wrote:
- | This is a repost to ask all new USR Sportster PnP 33.6K modem owners
- | if they can duplicate the same problem I've witnessed. Turn your modem
- | on, make sure you have a phone plugged into the jack on the back of
- | the modem. Now pick up the phone so that it is offhook. Does the Autoanswer
- | LED on the modem come on? Hang up the phone. Does the LED still stay on?
- | Even with the modem set to ATS0=0.
-
- The real question is not if this light goes on to indicate phone in
- use (many people have reported it), but if the modem will then
- answer. The first is an annoyance, the 2nd is a definite stop the
- show bug for most people.
-
- | As of 1/29/96 I have received about 10 responses from other Sportster
- | 33.6K owners witnessing the same problem. If there are others out
- | there experiencing this problem, please attach your acknowledgement
- | to the end of this post, or reply to me by email. Then after a number
- | of days I will collect all articles and send them to USR Technical
- | Support via their BBS directly, since hanging on the phone for 30+
- | minutes to speak to someone who hasn't a clue as to what your talking
- | about..
-
- And in many cases what they're talking about. USR has some good
- people, but I think the ones who do good work get pulled off
- Sportster support to "important stuff."
- --
- -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.
-