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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier Daughterboard and Singleboard models
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 14:08:02 -0500
- Organization: panix
- Message-ID: <4jml6j$b12@panix3.panix.com>
- References: <6KvXx8FF00XE090yn@news.pacific.net.sg>
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- In article <6KvXx8FF00XE090yn@news.pacific.net.sg>,
- Winsolst <winsolst@news.pacific.net.sg> wrote:
- > I have a Courier V.Everthing and would greatly appreciate it if
- >someone could supply some answers to my questions which follow:
- >
- >
- >1. Why are there two different versions of the Courier?
-
- Because the oldest ones were sold as upgradeable prior to the existence of
- V.34 (or even V.FC); the daughterboard V.everything modems have had that
- upgrade installed (i.e. a new daughterboard).
-
- Since no hardware upgrades are planned for existing V.everything modems
- there is no such design.
-
- >2. Is one better (in any way) then the other? Performance
- >consideration... etc.
-
- AFAIK they perform the same except for the CLID support.
-
- >3. Other than being achitecturally different, are there any other
- >differences between the two versions?
-
- Different parts, different board layouts.
-
- >4. Since the daughterboard version does NOT support the CLID flash
- >upgrade, have the customers who bought this version been
- >"short-changed" in any sense?
-
- No, since you can add the CLID support by soldering in a few pennies worth
- of electrical parts; already posted here ad nauseum. The daughterboard
- models support the flash firmware, they simply lack 2 components necessary
- to bleed the CLID data into the DSP prior to going off hook.
-
- >
- >5. Is there any way for me to reliably ascertain which version is
- >my Courier? (Opening up the modem is out of the question :) )
-
- Turn off the speaker and listen to it pick up the phone line. If it clicks
- as it goes off hook, you have the newer (single board) model.
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