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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Zoom 28.8
- Message-ID: <DM6Kws.962@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet5.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
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- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 03:41:15 GMT
-
-
- Gary Rima (g_rima@computek.net) writes:
- > In article <4eje1n$43e@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>, millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu
- > says...
- >>Daniel Rosenzweig (drosenzw@mci.newscorp.com) wrote:
- >>
- >>: >I would not recommend Zoom to anyone. Take it back as soon as you
- >>: >can. I have had nothing but problems. Someone I know here at the
- >>: >school I go to can also vouch for this. He told me that their 14.4's
- >>: >are ok, but the v.34 have a lot of problems. He knows this from his
- >>: >own experience and from what he's heard from other ISP's in the area.
- >>
- >>: The OLDER ROMs of the v.34i/x had problems, the current ROM is fine. The
- >>: COMSTAR modems have problems with 30% of PCs with PCI buses- Rockwell is
- >>: working on the problem.
- >>
- >>You may have had absolutely no problems whatsoever with Zoom modems,
- >>but that does not make you a modem expert, nor does it qualify you to
- >>make such a broad statement like, "the current ROM is fine."
- >>
- >>If you have an opinion, fine. But don't make it sound like a
- >>carved-in-stone fact.
- >>--
- >>Andy Milleville
- >>millevil@eng.buffalo.edu
- >
- > Gee, Andy, let's try exactly the same logic: "You may have had lots of
- > problems with Zoom modems, but that does not make you a modem expert, nor
- > does it qualify you to make such a broad statement like, 'Take it back as
- > soon as you can.'" Chill out!!!!
- >
- > Now, before you flame me, I, like most (all?) in this thread am not a modem
- > expert either, but my Zoom V.34i works fine and connects at full 28,8 most
- > of the time, once I got the latest ROM upgrade. BTW, I connect to at
- > least three different services on a daily basis, so my Zoom gets used a
- > lot and has been very solid. The modems have also been rated as the best
- > low cost V.34 by PC Mag after they ran rather extensive tests. Zoom tech
-
- Just which PC Mag was this? In the March '95 test PC Mag (the
- good test) choose the USR Courier and PPI as best expansive and low cost
- models respectively, while in the Oct(?) '95 test (the test that was only
- slightly less pityful then most tests) of only cheaper models they choose
- the Motorola Power and Cardinal as their higher and low cost choices.
- AFAIK PC Mag hasn't done any other tests since then..
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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