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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster 28.8 Vi vs Motorola Lifestyle 28.8
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:35:05 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4ingb9$1e6e@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4icdh1$epr@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> <4ie0os$2ta@cancer.vividnet.com> <314B1BA9.209A@dimensional.com>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <314B1BA9.209A@dimensional.com>,
- Brad Gefke <bgefke@dimensional.com> wrote:
-
- | Check out the new SupraSonic at:
- | http://www.supra.com/SonicLaunch/
-
- A few comments:
- - overall it sounds good
- - it doesn't seem to provide V.34+
- - faster compress doesn't help download, unless the server has
- Supra. Decompress take much less CPU than compress, rarely a
- bottleneck. And the graphics they claim download faster will not
- compress, so no gain for JPEG and GIF files.
- - didn't see anything about flash upgrade
- - until I see the docs I assume that the software is all DOS-only
- and that UNIX users are getting to roll their own software.
- - price is okay, but > Sportster and >> Zoom. That doesn't mean it
- isn't worth it, just a comment for now.
-
- They should totally kill the Sportster vi, assuming the software is
- even decent. No matter how USR says it, if you can't hear the damn
- modem it isn't useful.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- -Dave Welch
-