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- Path: morris.vip.best.com!user
- From: morris@best.com (Paul Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster and "Death-spiral"
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 22:56:46 -0800
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <morris-0102962256460001@morris.vip.best.com>
- References: <DM3suJ.DHI@news.arco.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: morris.vip.best.com
-
- In article <DM3suJ.DHI@news.arco.com>, dbsgrm@arco.com wrote:
-
- > I've been following this group for a few weeks now, and haven't seen
- > discussed what I've learned recently may be my problem. (Can I be,
- > like, any MORE obtuse?)
- >
- > USR Sportster v34 Mac&Fax, 28.8 modem--I've been connecting fine
- > to my workplace, which also uses USR products. But I've been
- > having problems with dropped carrier when I try to connect to
- > an ISP.
- >
- > Day before yesterday, one of my coworkers said "Oh, yeah, of
- > course, I heard of that. Death-spiral. The modem's got a bad
- > chip. When it gets noise, it throttles down the speed, but never
- > corrects back up. Get a new chip."
- >
- > I've been trying to call USR, but their live people are closed when
- > I'm at home, and, of course, I'm at work now, and my modem is at home.
- >
-
- Spiral Death Syndrome (SDS) only affects Sportsters with chips prior to 4/14/95.
- Do an ATI7 and see what the supervisor date is. If 4/95 or later, you
- don't have to worry about SDS.
-