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- From: mills@ultranet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR vs Supra (guess who wins)
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:16:45 GMT
- Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4ik934$i8d@caesar.ultra.net>
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- Ouch !!! I've been had. Thankyou for correcting me.
- 288V+ that's really slimmy. Is Diamond Product marketing
- folks taking over.
-
- Damn I've been had, I'm so embarrassed.
-
- I DON'T care how realistic 33.6 is or NOT, I wanted
- a modem that could do it.
-
- I do know of some modems that have newer
- rockwell datapumps that are capable of 33.6 but
- the modem has not released the firmware for the
- controller as yet.
-
- Does anyone know what the part numbers of
- the Rockwell 33.6 capable datapumps might be.
- If the SupraSonic has the newer datapump, maybe
- I won't send it back.
-
- I would not think they would build a new modem
- with the older datapumps and I suspect they
- are downward compatable.
-
- af898@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Danny Colquhoun) wrote:
-
- >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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- > \ _ /
- > o o \_(0)_/
- > \ / +---=====(]( + )[)=====---+
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- > \__ /0\ __/ My opinions are my own, and are right.
- > X------------< __/ . \__ >------------X email: af898@ccn.cs.dal.ca
- > O O \__\___/__/ O O or danny@ical.isisnet.com
- > / (_) \ or http://ccn.cs.dal.ca/~af898/profile.html
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