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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR vs Supra (guess who wins)
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 14:34:23 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <4iejhf$l1s@nntp1.best.com>
- References: <4icvsq$k7h@caesar.ultra.net>
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- In article <4icvsq$k7h@caesar.ultra.net>, mills@ultranet.com says...
- >
- >I just purchased a Sportster 33.6 (after happily owning two other
- >Supra's).
- >
- >The modem was not quite as terrible as I read hear on the
- >net but it did have some minor problems.
- >
- >It is HARDLY PnP as others have mentioned.
- >PnP doesn't mean much if you have to MANUALY load new
- >drivers in between Pluging and Playing.
-
- thats because when win95 shipped the sportsters and couriers were not 33.6
- that is why you hafto get the new inf files from usr to detect the modem
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- >
- >But to top that off even after you do load the drivers
- >It STILL does not recognize the modem. And to top
- >that off the drivers (.INF) are not zipped and Netscape
- >down loads them as Unix files and can really mess things
- >up if you don't realize this. You should be able to diff
- >(fc) them with only a dozen or so line differences.
- >
-
- ftp them instead.. ftp.usr.com/dl07/usrmdmsp.inf
- copy it to windows/inf
- delete modem
- detect modem on boot up, search for modem, or add modem manually one
- of those should work. make sure you delete your current modem and
- re add it with one of those ways
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- >I had the Modem for 30days and on the 30th day I confirmed
- >that Supra does have a new 33.6 (despite my calling them
- >just a few days ago asking about it and getting the usual
- >response "When it becomes a standard").
- >
- >After reading that some folks have confirmed a FAX recieving
- >to be a problem on the Sportster with some fax machines. And
- >the difficulty of of getting upgrades and service from USR I
- >returned it and ordered the SupraSonic.
- >
- >The SupraSonic sure looks like one cool modem. I would of
- >been happy with just adding 33.6 to the old style but no, Supra
-
- yeah but neener neener.. if you buy a supra 33.6 your going to hafto
- go through the obtaining an inf file from supra all over again beucase
- those arent on the w95 cd rom either!
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