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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster and Courier
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 08:37:53 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- References: <4ggmhg$59o@news1.infinet.com> <4gi4js$h7o@shellx.best.com> <4gt622$6do@news.xmission.com> <4gtbl4$mvi@shellx.best.com> <313280de.40389464@news.insync.net>
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- In article <313280de.40389464@news.insync.net>, bubba@insync.net says...
- >
- >Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
- >
- >>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:
- >
- >Eff. 02/20/96
- >
- >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.
- >
- >COURIER features not available in the 28.8 (33.6) SPORTSTER:
- >
- >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)
- >
- >
-
- i dont think the caller id stuff word got out when i originally
- made that posting.
-
- anyways you seem to have omitted
-
- selective power on self test mode.
- which makes the courier print out results from several tests
- including ram, rom, nvram, leds and speaker, and a dump of the
- dip switches, as well as enabling remote configuration for testing purposes
-
- phase roll compensation
-
- selective reject of errored frames
-
- nobody is perfect
-
-