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- From: strudeau@babylon5.ultranet.com (Scot J. Trudeau)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier vs Motorola Power
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:25:41 GMT
- Organization: Babylon 5 Command and Control
- Message-ID: <4cvf97$6lq@caesar.ultra.net>
- References: <00000DA800000D1E@prostar.com> <DKsAJJ.DoE@fyi.net>
- Reply-To: scot.trudeau@swcbbs.com
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- In message <DKsAJJ.DoE@fyi.net>,
- rls@isrv.com (Bob Schaffer) wrote:
-
- >ceder@prostar.com (Ceder) wrote:
-
- >>I currently have a Motorola Power. I'm not happy with the connect speeds.
- >>I once had a USR that got higher CPS and higher connect sppeds than this
- >>modem. So can you tell me somethings about the USR Courier... IS it worth
- >>all of that money?!?!?!?! Well thankx....
-
- >Interesting. I have both a Power 28.8 and a Sportster 33.6. The Power
- >28.8 connects at 28.8 99% of the time to my ISP. The Sportster about 80%.
-
- >I compared a friend's new Courier 33.6 to my modems last week and found the
- >Sportster had a throughput rate very close to the Courier, for about 1/2
- >the price. The Motorola was slightly slower in throughput.
-
- >Seeing how modems are changing I'd recommend you think twice about spending
- >$450-500 for a modem that might be obsolete in a year or two when ISDN
- >catches on.
-
- So instead recommend that if they want a Courier, to get the Courier
- I-modem. The internal is available now on the USR Sysop Deal and to anyone
- not a sysop that wants one. Get both ISDN (although it's only 64k and not
- 128k) and v.34+ in purchase. I believe it's actually cheaper than an just
- the plain internal v.Everything.
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-
- --
- Scot J. Trudeau
- scot.trudeau@swcbbs.com
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