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- Path: unixg.ubc.ca!attaran
- From: attaran@unixg.ubc.ca (Amir Attaran)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: DO NOT BUY MEGAHERTZ PC MODEM FOR MAC!!
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:50:51 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4inh8r$mo7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: netinfo.ubc.ca
- Summary: MEGAHERTZ MODEM DOES NOT FAX CORRECTLY; SUPPORT VERY VERY POOR!
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
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- Keywords:
- I have been the miserable owner of a 28.8 Megahertz CruiseCard since a
- few months ago. ON NO ACCOUNT SHOULD ONE BUY THIS MODEM! I have had
- great difficulty faxing with it, and NO SUPPORT at all has been
- forthcoming from Megahertz.
-
- The problem is that the modem fails to connect with about 20% of fax
- machines. It dials, handshakes, but does not send. When I try the same
- experiment with either of 2 other modems (Global Village or Magnum) on
- the same phone line and to the same fax machines, it works fine! The
- failure is 100% repeatable in my experience.
-
- Megahertz has an e-mail address for tech support. I have used this at
- least twenty times, and NEVER HAD A REPLY FROM TECH SUPPORT! It is
- abundantly clear that messages posted to megahertz@techsupport.com are
- infrequently, if ever, replied to. The last time I tried was in January,
- when out of exasperation I sent the same message 10 times!! No reply.
-
- I have spent hours on the phone with Megahertz, often at my expense, to
- diagnose this problem, but they are unable to say with certainty what is
- wrong. Part of the problem is that their hardware is made for PC, and
- their support for Mac is awful. For instance, if you have a PC and the
- ROM of the modem needs to be flashed, this can be done at once via their
- BBS. They do not offer this service for Mac, but offer instead to
- exchange your modem by DHL. Cost for this service: $35!! And if it does
- not work, too bad, since it is not refundable! You, the user, pick up
- the tab for what would otherwise be unnecessary if Megahertz supported
- Mac equivalently to PCs.
-
- This is a poor product, with miserable support for Mac users. I CANNOT
- ADVISE STRONGLY ENOUGH THAT YOU DO NOT BUY A MEGAHERTZ MODEM FOR
- MACINTOSH! I would be very interested to know if other users out there
- have this SAME problem (no general problems, please), since I am
- contemplating legal action under the British Columbia Sale of Goods Act
- against Megahertz.
-
- Amir Attaran
- ATTARAN@NETINFO.UBC.CA
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