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- From: destarr@tir.com (David Starr)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR V34+ upgrade dates
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:22:00 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Ramp
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- On Mon, 01 Apr 1996 16:48:55 GMT, genesn@mis.net (Gene Snider) wrote:
-
- <>I ordered the USR V34+ 33.6 upgrade for my external 28.8 Sportster
- in
- <>Nov. 1995 and received it the first week of March. I can tell no
- <>performance difference from my previous upgrade in April of 1995.
- The
- <>new Prom has the following dates:
- <> Supv. 8-29-95
- <>DSP 7-5-95
- <>Sup Rev 6.0.6
- <>Dsp Rev 1.2.4
- <>
- <>Last week I had the opportunity to buy some new USR V34+ External
- <>Sporters for our computers at work. I naturally checked the Prom
- <>dates and compared them to my recent up grade. Guess what, the off
- the
- <>shelf modems had different and newer dates than my upgrade. I
- <>immediately took them home and compared the performance to to my
- <>recently upgraded modem. More surprises, the new off the shelf
- modems
- <>connected at a higher rate almost everytime. I finally saw my very
- <>first 28.8 connection. What gives USR? How many different Proms
- are
- <>out there and which one is the most current? I appears that USR
- just
- <>shipped out lots of old chips to get rid of inventory. The ones on
- <>the shelf were probably manufactured months ago yet still have newer
- <>dates on the proms. I think I just got ripped for $25 upgrade. Any
- <>others find this to be the case?
- <>
- <>New Sportster dates:
- <>
- <>Eprom 10-18-95
- <>DSP 10-18-95
- <>Ep Rev 1.1
- <>Dsp Rev 1.1
- <>
- <>
- <>--
- <>genesn@mis.net
- <>
-
- The Sportster I bought on Nov 25, 95, has the same dates & revs as
- your new modems.
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