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- From: Starfleet
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Thanks, USR great
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 07:14:56 GMT
- Organization: UFP
- Message-ID: <4cqg9h$l09@news.netvoyage.net>
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- On 7 Jan 1996 13:56:15 GMT, alexb@clark.net (Alex Batson)
- <4cojdv$n5v@clarknet.clark.net> wrote:
-
- >On Sat, 6 Jan 1996 07:33:35 GMT, Frederik L. Schodt wrote:
- >
- >: I also bought a USR Sportster 28.8 and have been very frustrated by it. The
- >: modem part works fine, but the faxing part is driving me nuts. USR changed
- >: the command set so it no longer works with FaxWorks Pro for OS/2 as is, and
- >: I had to hexedit FaxWorks to get it to work. Now the fax part of the modem
- >: works, but there seem to be several other modems and fax machines out there
- >: with which it is incompatible. I get hangs, bad receives, and have a
- >: horrible time sending to several sites that gave me absolutely no problem
- >: before with a Supra. USR suggested reducing the fax speed settings from
- >: 28.8 to 9600, but even that doesn't cure all the problems.
- >
- >I once had a 14.4 USR modem that was horrible.. it would 'hesitate,
- >horribly, where I could type a sentence, and wait a sec or two
- >before the modem could echo it off the remote modem.. Oh, and you
- >can forget about faxing.,., failures FAR outnumberd successes. Welp,
- >enough about that, I did some extensive querying of internet folk, and
- >found SupraFAX to be much better.. I've been smiling ever since..data
- >and fax are perfect!
- >
- >Alex
-
- i have usr sportster, fax AND data are great. yes i have tried
- rockwell based cheapo modems. they're not my choice. usr is great. i
- got 3200+ cps rate, do you?
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