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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Are you waiting for the 33.6 chip?
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 06:06:16 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Michael B. Barger (bargeman@ramper1.onramp.net) wrote:
- : My experience with USR is the same as everyone elses. I have been
- : trying to get this issue resolved ever since they made that 33.6 chip
- : available to the public.
- :
- : I work for a regional ISP and we have been integrating the Total Control
- : racks into our modem pool due to the obvious; USRs are the best selling
- : modems on the market. Personally I believe it is due to the way the
- : company is organized. They probably take 90% of their profits and push
- : it into marketing so they can continue to sell their modems to the
- : general public who, for the most part, don't know what they are getting
- : themselves into. The other 10% of their profits probably go to hiding
- : themselves from people like us who have technical issues that need to be
- : resolved.
-
- Let me get this straight... Are you saying that you are having problems
- with USR's rack mount Courier line? Or have you had problems with their
- cheaper, consumer grade models?
-
- FWIW, I have never had any real problems with my Couriers... any of them.
-
- : Providing good service is just as important as providing good hardware.
-
- I would think, for an ISP, providing good service is very important and
- buying good hardware would be a very important part of that.
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