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- From: rlewis@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Robert Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Are you waiting for the 33.6 chip?
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:09:34 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4gt0fi$nh0@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
-
- >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.
- >
- >
- I think he was trying to re-state the obvious. USR customers mean
- nothing once they've handed over the $$$.
-
- Robert Lewis
- rlewis@garfield.cs.mun.ca
- http://garfield.cs.mun.ca/~rlewis
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