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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR V34+ upgrade dates
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 03:50:23 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- Gene Snider (genesn@mis.net) writes:
- > 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
-
- Guess what. Those new, off the shelf Sportsters also have
- different CPU/DSPs then your upgraded Sportster.
-
- > 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
-
- Now that is interesting. While the hardware in the new modems is
- different, and therefor the code obviously has to be somewhat different,
- performance should be pretty similar.
-
- > 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
-
- There are quite a few different EPROMs out there for the various
- models of USR modems. 10-18-95 is the newest for the new Sportstesr you
- bought and 8-25-95 is the newest for the upgraded Sportster you've got.
- If you want to see the differences, open the modems up and look at their
- PCBs.
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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