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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster and Courier
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 04:01:06 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <313280de.40389464@news.insync.net>
- References: <4ggmhg$59o@news1.infinet.com> <4gi4js$h7o@shellx.best.com> <4gt622$6do@news.xmission.com> <4gtbl4$mvi@shellx.best.com>
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- Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
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- >In article <4gt622$6do@news.xmission.com>, bmwright@xmission.com says...
- >>
- >>Matt Fox (Rigor@clever.net) wrote:
- >>:
- >>: stuff that courier has that sportster does not:
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- Eff. 02/20/96
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- NOTE: The following list represents comparisons between *latest
- production* Sportsters and Couriers (and their respective firmware
- microcode) as of the date of this list. Prior lists are obsolete.
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- COURIER features not available in the 28.8 (33.6) SPORTSTER:
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- 1. Caller ID (both CID and CNID)
- 2. Distinctive Ring Detection (Ringmaster or RingMate)
- 3. Carrier loss auto-dialback
- 4. Support for USR's proprietary "HST" protocol
- 5. Automatic Speed Levelling (ASL)
- 6. Eight (8) additional autodial memory storage locations
- 7. Two-wire dedicated lease line mode
- 8. V.25Bis Synchronous mode
- 9. Stored command execution (the AT&ZC command)
- 10. Nine-function front panel voice/data switch (external models only)
- 11. Ten number dial callback security, including "autopass" mode
- 12 Remotely configurable (gosh, what a handy feature!)
- 13 A genuine, printed & bound technical reference/owner's manual
- 14. Support for V.32-terbo mode (AT&T 19.2k bps protocol)
- 15. Five addt'l front panel LEDs (external models)
- 16. Two additional dipswitch options
- 17. Three addt'l call progress monitoring options (X5, X6, X7)
- 18. Ability to decode touchtone dialing digits (the %T command)
- 19. Compliant with USRs' Total Control modem management system
- 20. Several more AT commands, "S" registers and command responses
- 21. Toll-free technical support (US Domestic, at 1-800-550-7800)
- 22. MI/MIC mode (commercial applications mostly)
- 23. FLASH ROM FOR NEW FIRMWARE UPDATES INCLUDING DSP CODE!
- 24. A much more handsome case (externals)
- 25. Considerably better quality speaker audio (externals)
- 26. Couriers eligible for USR's trade-in/trade-up plan
- 27. Real time clock (the k1/i6 commands)
- 28. A real CPU - yes, the CPU chip is gone from new Sportsters
- 29. Dipswitch settings readable via the (undocumented) y15 command
- 30. Operable in receive-only "monitor" mode (the c0 command)
- 31. Product serial no. readable with the (undocumented) ~S? command
- 32. Three factory preset profiles (&F0, &F1, &F2)
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