In article <4ersto$foa@news-f.iadfw.net>, Neuros@airmail.net (Neuros) 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. This is unusual, because I have a
> friend that has a Sportster 28.8K, V.34 that has the 4/95 ROM, and he
> doesn't have this problem. So could this be a design flaw in these newer
> Sportster 28.8Ks that have a totally redesigned motherboard and 33.6K
> ROM? Other than that the modem works GREAT...I get 28.8K connects nearly
> 95% of the time when I call my ISP...So if there are others, experiencing
> this problem please tack your acknowledgement to this post, or send me
> some mail. So far I've had two other people to agree with me....
>
>
> 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..
I too have been having this problem. I just got a Sportster 33.6 for the
Macintosh. I realized that when somebody picked up the phone the AA light
went on. I actually stayed up all night trying to figure it out. It was
driving me crazy. I compared the init strings to the 14.4 mac & Fax I had.
I posted to this newsgroup to see if others were having this problem. Like
Neuros said it works great, except for a couple of minor flaws, 1)AA light
2)when you do a ATI6 (I believe) it says that it is running at 92 Mhz, so
you are telling me that my modem is running faster than my old trust LC
III (running at 25Mhz?).
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