home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: morris.vip.best.com!user
- From: morris@best.com (Paul Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR V34+ upgrade dates
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 20:59:03 -0800
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <morris-0104962059030001@morris.vip.best.com>
- References: <4jp1he$nql@news.campus.mci.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: morris.vip.best.com
-
- In article <4jp1he$nql@news.campus.mci.net>, 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 later Proms are not compatible with the earlier Sportster models.
- The entire modem layout has apparently changed with the PnP models.
-