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- From: profgmby@raven.cybercom.com (Sir Spamalot)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier vs Motorola Power
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 15:22:45 GMT
- Organization: Not Very Much
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- rls@isrv.com (Bob Schaffer) wrote:
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- >ceder@prostar.com (Ceder) wrote:
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- >>I currently have a Motorola Power. I'm not happy with the connect speeds.
- >>I once had a USR that got higher CPS and higher connect sppeds than this
- >>modem. So can you tell me somethings about the USR Courier... IS it worth
- >>all of that money?!?!?!?! Well thankx....
- >>
- >>E-Mail=forest@Prostar.com
- >>------
- >>Mike
-
- >Interesting. I have both a Power 28.8 and a Sportster 33.6. The Power
- >28.8 connects at 28.8 99% of the time to my ISP. The Sportster about 80%.
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- >I compared a friend's new Courier 33.6 to my modems last week and found the
- >Sportster had a throughput rate very close to the Courier, for about 1/2
- >the price. The Motorola was slightly slower in throughput.
-
- I don't understand! How can three modems, given the same connection
- line speed, and equal DCE speeds (presumablly 57.6), give different
- throughput rates? Doesn't this emply that there are errors that are
- being corrected?
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