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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 21:21:23 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4i7e8j$2cle@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4hq3uu$moe@gryphon.phoenix.net> <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4hqi4d$17a@brickbat.mindspring.com>,
- C. E. Wyatt <cewyatt@cew.com> wrote:
-
- | OK, I'll use mine as an example. I purchased my Courier V.34 Ready/Fax back
- | in July '94. It came with V.FC, V.32terbo, and V.32bis (as well as all the
- | lower V.'s). After a bit, USR released new code that had the preliminary V.34
- | support. I downloaded and updated within 5 minutes. Then, USR added the
- | final V.34 code, just another download. Then, they cleaned up the code, fixed
- | some bugs in the fax - still just another download. Then, they released code
- | that included V.34+ for 33.6 and 31.2 connect rates and also made all Courier
- | modems "Dual Standard". Now, they've released the code that adds Caller ID,
- | Distinctive Ring, and Automatic Redial on carrier drop. All of these
- | adaptations has only required a download of a file and a quick update to
- | implement. Coming up we might see DSVD for simultaneous voice/data and a lot
- | of other new niceties.
-
- Of course now that USR doesn't have that download option available
- you call them and ask them to send you the software, which is a real
- pain. This may change back, but I don't believe it until I see it.
-
- Like having docs in acrobat instead of postscript, USR seems to lack
- a sense of what would make the customer happy after the sale.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Behavioral scientists at Harvard University have proven that there
- are six things a man must do to keep a woman happy. They have also
- determined that no one has any idea what these things are.
-