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- From: AndrewG@Dial.Pipex.Com (Andrew Guy)
- Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc,uk.net,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:41:00 GMT
- Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
- Message-ID: <3149736b.95580066@sanews1>
- References: <31372FE6.4E3B@vax.sbu.ac.uk> <4htnon$i4f@piglet.cc.utexas.edu> <5ynumDAxPtQxEwJA@nts1.demon.co.uk> <3144b8f3.2121124@news.globalnet.co.uk> <4i891j$qpj@piglet.cc.utexas.edu>
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- On 13 Mar 1996 22:58:27 -0600, victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vic
- Menayang) wrote:
-
- >Andrew Sayers <storm@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
- >:
- >:I'm seriously considering the Sportster as a backup to my Courier. What is the main
- >:difference between this new Sportster Vi and the older version?
- >
- >The new Sporsters (including Vi's) support V34+ or speed up to
- >33.6kb.
-
- Sorry, but in the UK they're not supporting the 33.6k baud rate. The
- upgrade to 33.6 is in the form of a new firmware chip. USR have
- confirmed that they have NO plans to offer this chip in the UK - I
- tried!
- I suppose you could get the US version and hack the AT commands to
- work for our dial tones, but probably not worth the effort...
-
- Regards
- Andrew
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