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- Path: morris.vip.best.com!user
- From: morris@best.com (Paul Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: verdict on USR 33.6 upgrade chip?
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:18:17 -0800
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <morris-1303962118170001@morris.vip.best.com>
- References: <4fqgud$8sr@milo.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> <4g2niv$94@news.ais.net> <312877CA.A1A@fishnet.net> <gene.115.0012B748@mcs.net> <4i78ed$87u@news.paonline.com>
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-
- In article <4i78ed$87u@news.paonline.com>, Haines@Atomiccafe.com (Harry W.
- Haines, III) wrote:
-
- > In article <gene.115.0012B748@mcs.net>, gene@mcs.net (Gene) wrote:
- > >In article <312877CA.A1A@fishnet.net> John White <jwhite@fishnet.net> writes:
- > >>From: John White <jwhite@fishnet.net>
- > >>Subject: Re: verdict on USR 33.6 upgrade chip?
- > >> Jim, A lot of us are seeing that our connect speeds to non-V34+
- > >>modems have actually gone DOWN with the latest ROMs about 2400 on
- > >>average. Seems a few new bugs have been introduced in the V34
- > >>implementation.
- > >
- > >
- > >Ill second that what gives. Is their a good init string that we could use
- > >through Win 95 dialup?
- >
- > The best init you could give it is a trip back to where you bought it
- > and return it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Their new modems are buggy and they
- > refuse to support them.
- >
-
- Well I have to disagree. I upgraded my v34 to v34+ with the new chip, and it's
- working just fine. Before the upgrade, I always got 28.8/28.8 connections.
- Now I get 31.2/31.2 connections about 50% of the time, 33.6/33.6 about 2%
- of the time, and 28.8/28.8 the rest of the time.
-
- I was fortunate enough to get a 33.6 connection when downloading the 16MB
- 7.5 Apple Software Update 2.0. This is a compressed binary file, and I got
- steady download rates of 3420 bytes/second over FTP (on a PPP connection).
-
- Here is the ATI6 screen after the download:
-
- USRobotics Sportster 33600 V.34+ Fax Link Diagnostics...
-
- Chars sent 1518402 Chars Received 17504079
- Chars lost 0
- Octets sent 655166 Octets Received 18226030
- Blocks sent 161798 Blocks Received 142790
- Blocks resent 0
-
- Retrains Requested 0 Retrains Granted 0
- Line Reversals 0 Blers 7
- Link Timeouts 0 Link Naks 0
-
- Data Compression V42BIS 2048/32
- Equalization Long
- Fallback Enabled
- Protocol LAPM 128/15
- Speed 33600/33600
- Last Call 01:22:14
-
- Disconnect Reason is DISC Received
- OK
-