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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are USR Couriers really a superior modem?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 21:24:13 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4i7edt$10gu@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4hq3uu$moe@gryphon.phoenix.net> <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com> <3142ec25.3720070@news.superlink.net> <4hv2e6$nu6@hopi.gate.net>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
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- In article <4hv2e6$nu6@hopi.gate.net>, doug haire <dhaire@gate.net> wrote:
- | Tom Snyder (tommy@superlink.net) wrote:
-
- | : You seem to have left out the part about sitting on hold on the phone
- | : for half an hour waiting to speak with some tech who can offer you ways
- | : to get hold of the new flashrom code. Gone are the days (it seems) of
- | : "only required a download of a file".
-
- | A delay or wrinkle in getting new features in a firmware package hardly
- | changes the quality of the modem itself.
-
- Note that the owners of the Courier PCMCIA have never got an update
- since the modem shipped. Boy, that makes the flash upgrade worth a
- lot, doesn't it?
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Behavioral scientists at Harvard University have proven that there
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