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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Does USR Sportster vi 28.8 go 33.6?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 02:52:25 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- In article <4it5j2$nc@server3.mich.com>,
- rainman@mich.com (Jerry Rainko) wrote:
- >rd39462@ix.netcom.com (rd39462) wrote:
- >
- >>The internal USR Sportster Vi "28.8" I purchased in January was already
- 33.6.
- >>My understanding, from what I've read, is that you need a chip replacement
- to
- >>upgrade a true 28.8 to 33.6.
- >
- >I've called USR twice now (second time to confirm it) and have been
- >told flat out that there is no upgrade for the internal 28.8 vi model.
- >I've also read in this group that if the model was purchased late in
- >95 (Nov, Dec, Jan 96), it is a "mule", i.e. there is NO upgrade
- >planned at all for it. Models sold after this period, as I've read,
- >are based on a different hardware design, and are already 33.6.
-
- USR gladly accepted from a friend of mine payment for a 33.6 upgrade to the
- Sportster 28.8 Vi... and sent him the V.34 upgrade for the plain Sportster.
-
- The local distributor is still carrying the Vi withOUT DSVD, and the DSVD
- seems to be available only in internal form. (I asked support@usr.com whether
- there was an external and whether it was available in Canada but, instead of a
- couple of yes/no answers, I received a phone call from someone at another
- distributor who left a number where no one knew his name).
-
- USR has certainly learned new tricks, including how to screw up.
-
- --
- Geoffrey Welsh, Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
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