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- From: jenkinsj@flotsm.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Decision time: USR Sportster vs Motorola Power vs Supra .....
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:13:40 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Scott B. Moore (sbmoore@infi.net) wrote:
- : Yup...it's buying time and I still can't decide on a winner 28.8 modem. What
- : makes it worse is I've been doing my homework on this and I STILL can't
- : decide!! Here's how I see it...what do you think?
-
- I have just recently bought a 28.8 Lifestyle Motorola
- if this is the same guts (CPU/DSP/sw) as the Power I have
- a few comments which may be relevant.
-
- o For 28.8 connections after a power on or after a
- previous 28.8k are fine.
-
- o For every 28.8 connection after a 14.4k (fax or data) it will fail
- 100% of the time. If you do an AT&F it will fail about 30%
- of the time. If you power cycle it will succeed every time.
-
- o Lots of problems receiving faxes. Doesn't matter
- which sw (Winfax Pro, Eclipse, QuickLink II) success
- seems to be a hit and miss affair although some fax
- machines will always fail on send to me, others will
- fail several times then succeed. In Winfax Pro the most
- common error is:
- "70 (Class 1/2) - Modem error setting modem data rate.",
- in the others it is "Unknown fax error" !! Init strings
- and power cylcing seems to have no effect in this case.
-
- More inmportantly neither Motorola nor Microsmith (the sw that
- comes with Motorola) have been of any help whatsoever: neither
- ever answered back after the initial query!
-
- Jon
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