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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: USRobotics Sportster SI
- Message-ID: <DM9p7F.Gw6@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4es044$hrk@bobcat.csusm.edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 20:06:51 GMT
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- Paul Orrungroj (synk@csusm.edu) writes:
- > What's the difference between the USRobotics Sporster SI and the normal
- > Sporster?
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- The regular Sportster is a functional modem, the Sportster Si is
- not. The Sportster Si is an "RPI modem", which means that it requires
- special software to do error control and data compression. This, in
- itself, causes many problems and severely limits the uses of the modem.
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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