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- From: P.Raffin@frcl.bull.fr (Patrick Raffin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR V34+ upgrade dates
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 17:26:40 GMT
- Organization: Bull, Les Clayes, France
- Sender: raffin@manet (Patrick Raffin)
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- References: <4jp1he$nql@news.campus.mci.net> <316072d0.1934178@news.tir.com> <3160bc02.3006376@news.insync.net> <3161e1be.2754873@139.175.12.10>
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- In article <3161e1be.2754873@139.175.12.10>, edelman@public.bta.net.cn (Pete Fang) writes:
- |> bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield) wrote:
- |>
- |> >Sometime during the 4th quarter of 1995 there was a substantial
- |> >design change in the V34 Sportster. The "new" models utilize a 92 Mhz
- |> >Clock Frequency and current firmware for THOSE models is 10-18-95 for
- |> >the externals and 10-13-95 for the internals. The major differences
- |> >in the products are that the "NEW" Sportsters no longer have a separate
- |> >80186 CPU chip, cpu functions now being incorporated into the DSP. Also
- |> >the DAA (phone line interface) has been changed to use a much larger
- |> >transformer than prior units. (better perhaps?)
- |> I just got my upgrade chip from USR and used it to replace my 4/18/95
- |> chip on my "older" internal Sportster. It worked fine here in Beijing,
- |> China. I used to get 28800 connections all the time. With the new
- |> V.34+ chip, I was able to get 31200/33600 connections with both
- |> Courier V.Everything (1/23/96 code) and the "newer" 33600-capable
- |> Sportsters.
- |> Here's something interesting I've found so far:
- |> (1) As the first V.34+ flash code for the Courier, the Sportster V.34+
- |> code also added the LAPM SREJ protocol while the "newer" Sportsters
- |> don't support this feature at all.
- |> (2) The speaker volume of the internal Sportster is back to the louder
- |> 9/2/94 level. It had been very low since the 11/94 update. Now even at
- |> ATL0 the volume is as high as the previous ATL2.
- |>
- |> >Another way to identify "old" from "new" Sportsters is to look at the
- |> >ati7 screen CLOCK FREQUENCY. The previous production Sportsters used
- |> >a 20.16 Mhz clock. The newest models use a 92 Mhz clock. Firmware
- |> >between the two models is radically different and not interchangeable.
- |> Yet another way is to issue the ATI11 command. It's no longer
- |> available in the "newer" Sportsters so you will get an "ERROR".
-
- The newest available Sportster vi 28.8 models in France are upgraded to 33.6,
- but:
- -their clock frequency is 20.16
- -they have the SREJ protocol
- -they support the ATI11 and ATY11 commands
- -their Sup. and DSP date is 02/05/96.
-
- Are they leftovers from the USA :-( ?
-