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- From: af898@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Danny Colquhoun)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR vs Supra (guess who wins)
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:06:27 GMT
- Organization: Chebucto Community Net
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- mills@ultranet.com wrote:
- : 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.
-
- : 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.
-
- : 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
- : had to add Voice and a 32 char display to really make me
- : crazy until I get it. Not to mention their great support which
- : I hope has not been damaged by diamond.
-
- : Kudo's to Supra.
-
- : P.S. Why did you have to keep it such a secret, I never would
- : of bot the USR if I knew it was coming.
-
- Um, the SupraSonic ISN'T 33.6, that's why it's called the SupraSonic
- 288V+, it has better compression abilities, but it doesn't connect with
- others at 33.6, at least that's what I heard from sales. And no, the
- datapump isn't flash upgradable, it requires a chip switch if you want to
- go to 33.6 later.
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