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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: HELP! Courier,Sportser or Motorola
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 22:09:13 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4i7h29$1b38@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4hsklv$2s4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4hsklv$2s4$2@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>,
- Jim Quinones Email csdjq@IBI.COM <72066.2613@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
-
- | I really would like to have a reliable 28.8
- | modem that can negotiate the highest possible speed with ANY TYPE
- | of modem. Should I go with a USR or should I go with Motorola?
-
- USR is having a large number of problems at this time, all in the
- customer satisfaction area. Customer support for Sportster is so
- slow that it may as well not exist, and upgrade time have been
- widely reported here as being 3-4 months for a simple ROM, and that
- came out with a product over 6 months old!
-
- The situation is only slightly better for the Courier, upgrades are
- no longer on the BBS and ftp site, and now I'm told they won't email
- them, either. You will get an upgrade eventually, but don't expect
- them to be timely any more.
-
- Upgrades are not currently available for PCMCIA Couriers (AFAIK) or
- machines other than MS-DOS and one other minor brand like Amiga. If
- you're running a UNIX server by chance, you may not be able to do
- updates.
-
- I've heard reports of serious problems with the TotalControl (tm?)
- racks, my ISP had problems with DOA and infant mortality on two
- racks at different sites. Unlikely that they were just a bad batch.
- There were other posts, I didn't save them.
-
- I believe that USR has outgrown its ability to do support and QA,
- and that you are better off to select another brand of modem at this
- time. I haven't heard anything bad about Motorola support in the
- USA, although every vendor has problems of some kind somewhere in
- the world.
-
- I would not use USR for anything mission critical at this time.
- --
- -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.
-