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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR 33.6 upgrade question.
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:44:28 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <315ea68c.1173668@news.insync.net>
- References: <4jl4k8$gdv@mother.usf.edu> <315e3cdc.3891577@news.melbpc.org.au>
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- tonym@melbpc.org.au (Tony Molina) wrote:
-
-
- >I have just bought a USR V34 Sportster external.
-
- >Are these upgrades only available by opening up the unit and replacing a chip or
- >is there a flash upgrade available similar to the Courier?
-
- It's a physical CHIP replacement.
-
- The V.34 Sportsters do not use flash rom technology.
-
- Upgrading your modem will not net you any performance improvement
- unless your host provider offers it (33.6) as well, and even
- then it's quite "iffy". Some report improvements and some don't.
-
- I'm also unsure that USR's 33.6 firmware microcode has yet been approved
- for use in .au = There currently seems to be some major flap about the
- Courier flash code for 33.6 being publicly posted on USR's support bbs
- in the US, so it's been removed. Owners of US/domestic Couriers can
- still obtain it, but it requires calling into a dialback system which is
- apparently intended to ensure the code only goes to US/domestic
- locations.
-
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