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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Are you waiting for the 33.6 chip?
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 11:20:57 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4gvb19$t9m@seminole.gate.net>
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- Robert Lewis (rlewis@garfield.cs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : 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 $$$.
-
- Oh, I see... and here I thought he was concerned about quality and
- reliability. Yes, I can see where a business would simply ignore past
- customers once they have paid. After all, no one cares about what someone
- else says about a company, do they? I mean, after all, we don't see
- anyone in this newsgroup asking asking or telling anyone about their
- experiences or about the various modems on the market, do we?
-
- In case this all was too subtle to you... I am being sarcastic.
-
- USR *does*, indeed, support its customers. However, sometimes customers
- don't like the answers they get since they usually mean the customer
- doesn't know how to describe the problem, are trying to use the product
- in a manner unintended for the product, or have totally
- misunderstood/misanalyzed the trouble.
-
- But I am sure you will not agree.
-
-