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- From: tarl@agt.net
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: USR - Overheating and causing drop offs
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 05:13:04 GMT
- Organization: AGT Ltd.
- Message-ID: <4g13qi$8n@news.agt.net>
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-
- I received this via e-mail from my ISP today, and I thought I would
- share it. Anyway's here it is.
-
- Subject: US Robotics 28.8 Sportster Dropoff Problem
-
- Greetings,
- There have been a fair number of AGT Planet customers using US
- Robotics 28.8 Sportster modems who have reported being 'dropped off'
- suddenly when connected to AGT Planet.
-
- US Robotics has admitted to a problem with these modem's ROM chips
- overheating and then causing disconnects. They are sending ROM chip
- upgrades to customers who request them by calling: 1-708-982-5151.
- Unfortunately this number is very busy so you end up waiting a while
- in their queue. The ROM upgrade was free, but I haven't been able to
- get US Robotics to verify if they're charging anything for it now.
-
- To find out if your modem is one of the ones they recognize as having
- this problem:
-
- - From your Internet dialer screen where you can type modem commands,
- type: ati7
- This will come back and tell you the date of your modem's ROM chips.
- If your
- Internet dialer software doesn't let you type commands directly to
- your modem,
- you will need to use some type of communications program that will.
- An
- example of this type of software is the 'Terminal' program in
- Windows 3.1. - If the date is older than April 18/95, your modem is
- one of the ones that is
- eligible for the upgrade.
-
- Here's an example of the ati7 command used on a modem with the old
- ROMs:
-
- ati7
- Configuration Profile...
-
- Product type US/Canada External
- Options V32bis,V.FC,V.34
- Fax Options Class 1/Class 2.0
- Clock Freq 20.16Mhz
- Eprom 256k
- Ram 32k
-
- Supervisor date 11/30/94
- DSP date 11/29/94 ------> This is the date you're
- looking for.
-
- Supervisor rev 6.0.4
- DSP rev 1.0.5
-
- OK
-
-
- For more information on this problem, plus some workarounds you can
- use in the meantime, visit & browse through the following web sites:
-
- http://www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html
- http://users.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem/faq.html
-
-
- Regards
-
- Tarl
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