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- From: Victor Shaw <casio@u.washington.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Anyone like the sportster 28.8 VI????
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 01:25:50 -0800
- Organization: University of Washington
- Message-ID: <31259F1E.47DC@u.washington.edu>
- References: <4f3527$or4@news-f.iadfw.net> <4fcm1m$h89@news.cis.okstate.edu> <4fsqcm$1ic@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <4g0g7n$bni@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4g1jnn$dc6@kryten.awinc.com>
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- jcass wrote:
- >
- > davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) wrote:
- >
- > >In article <4fsqcm$1ic@mojo.eng.umd.edu>,
- > >Thomas Kaufman <tkauf@Glue.umd.edu> wrote:
- > >| I bought the URS Sportser Vi just recently. Had to return it, because
- > >| the voice mail did not work, and there was no tech support to speak of.
- > >| I would be curious if ANYONE has a good experience to relate about the
- > >| voice features of a modem....
- >
- > >I found out how to disable them...
- > >--
- > > -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- > >"As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- > > -Dave Welch
- >
- > My Sportster 28800 vi works just fine-NOW. It took a while to figure
- > out that it will not work properly at 19200 or above 38400. When I
- > set my baud rate to 38400, it works very reliably. Smith Micro is
- > presumably working on a fix.
- >
- > jerry cassI just bought mine about two months ago and I hate it. The included software
- does not work well with Win95. The sound quality from playback and recording
- is terrible. The service support is >nonexistence<. I sent them three
- Emails and all I got back, after waiting a couple of weeks, is a list of
- numbers for the fax support, not even a message. All my modem DOS games
- (i.e. DoomII, Mechwarrior2,...) do not recognize this modem. I am also using
- the Cardinal and the Supra modems and don't have any connection problems with
- both of them. Using Cardinal modem, my internet connection is 26,400-28,800.
- As soon as I switch to the Sportster 28.8Vi, my connection is dropped to
- 24,000 and sometimes 26,400 at best. I was hoping that the new 33.6 rom chip
- might solve my problem. However, from reading this newsgroup, I guess many
- people are having trouble with the new rom chip as well. Anyway that is my
- opinion.
-
- Victor Shaw
-