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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster VI vs Tyan Titan III
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:22:56 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <4gd3i0$ju@shellx.best.com>
- References: <4f81n4$rsh@nntp.interaccess.com> <4gc8vs$e9b@maureen.teleport.com>
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- In article <4gc8vs$e9b@maureen.teleport.com>, jcorigan@teleport.com says...
- >
- >In <3126f295.219556@News.wchat.on.ca>, bongoman@wchat.on.ca said:
- >
- >>
- >>On 6 Feb 1996 17:04:36 GMT, hbarta@thymaster.interaccess.com (Henry Barta)
- >>wrote:
- >
- >>>
- >>> Has anyone else tried using a USR Sportster VI 33600 on a Tyan
- >>> Titan III motherboard??? (Internal version of the modem)
- >>>
- >>> Under Hyperterm/Win95 and direct connect to COM1, I also
- >>> experience horrible droppage of characters. 'ATI6' drops
- >>> characters at 19.2!! (Not a problem under the OS/2 version of
- >>> hyperterm at speeds up to 57.6)
- >>>
- >>It is not your motherboard, Iam having the same problem. I have tried the
- >>damn thing in four diffirent computers!!!
- >>I will not recommend sportster Vi. to anyone!!
- >>When I reinstalled my sportster v.34 without voice all the problem went
- >>away.
- >
- >The Sportster Vi has apparantly been discontinued. USR no longer has any
- >information about it on their web site. However if I remember correctly,
- >that modem is based on a Rockwell chipset that offloads most of the work to
- >the computer and only is supported by WINDOWS and SPECIFIC SOFTWARE at that.
- >You might check the documentation, or if that doesn't tell you anything,
- >look at the modem and see if there is a chip with a ROCKWELL name on it...
- >
- >
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- incorrect.. your talking about the SI not the VI ???
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