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- From: rlewis@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Robert Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How do we get REAL support?
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 02:07:49 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4f91hc$f7i@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- lolittle@airmail.net (Lynn Olan Little) wrote:
-
- >naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:
- >
- >>lolittle@airmail.net (Lynn Olan Little) writes:
- >
- >>> I hear the same thing about several modem companies, namely Bad or
- >>> NO support. There has to be something that will wake these companies
- >>> up to the fact that this is totally unacceptable. [...]
- >
- >>Are you willing to *pay* for the level of support you desire?
- >
- >>Besides, I keep wondering just how much support a well-designed and
- >>well-documented product needs.
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Real problem with the above....my USR Sprotster Manual says nothing of
- drivers or .inf files. It talks more about Mac modems and externals.
- Maybe they should document a single modem in the manual. "General"
- manuals which include more than one product can be very confusing.
- The Sportster 33.6 PnP, 28.8 internal, 28.8 VI DSVD, and 28.8 VI are
- different I would say. Plus how much does it cost them to get a techy
- to answer questions. Probably alot if they are constantly repairing
- modems that people break from frustration. Well designed? I'll give
- them that....I have had no probs since I found the inf file. Their ftp
- site sucks too DL07 should be called Sportster and DL05 should be
- called Courier. Why be so difficult?
-
-
- >>--
- >>Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber naddy@mips.pfalz.de
- >> See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>.
- >> -- currently reading: Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor --
- >
- >Consumers buy tons of computer related hardware (and software) that
- >cost the same or less than the average price of a modem. However, the
- >modem companies seem to offer the lowest level of support. There is no
- >reason that the modem industry should be different. Consumers deserve
- >good support. If Dell,IBM,Gateway 2000, or even Microsoft delivered
- >the same level of support that USR (the maker of my modem) provides,
- >they would be NOT be where they are now.
- > Lynn Olan Little
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