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- From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: New Sportster.....poor performance
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 06:44:26 -0800
- Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4fnjoa$lsk@cynic.portal.ca>
- References: <4fmab0$20j@nw002.infi.net>
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- In article <4fmab0$20j@nw002.infi.net>,
- Jeff Clemmer <jclemmer@fay.infi.net> wrote:
- >I just got a new USR Sportster 33.6 and I'm having problems downloading
- >large files. It starts out well but after a short time the data transfer
- >rate starts to drop. I know this is fairly normal but the disturbing
- >thing is that there are frequent and long pauses, sometimes minutes, when
- >there is no data transfer at all. After the pause the modem once again
- >resumes its download. Do I have something set up wrong?
-
- As far as I know you've got nothing set up wrong. If you try an
- ATI6 you'll notice a few retrains and many Link NAKs. The 33.6 code
- appears to be in very bad shape at the moment on some, if not all,
- of the 33.6 Sporsters (although all the ones I've used have had
- the same ROM date: 10/18/95), and I've returned three or four out
- of a dozen or so that consistently produced these unreliable
- connects.
-
- I've written to support@usr.com about the problem, but that was
- less than a month ago, so it's certainly too soon to expect a reply.
-
- cjs
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