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- From: crs0794@inforamp.net (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier Daughterboard and Singleboard models
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 17:41:04 GMT
- Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
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- In article <6KvXx8FF00XE090yn@news.pacific.net.sg>,
- winsolst@news.pacific.net.sg (Winsolst) wrote:
- > I have a Courier V.Everthing and would greatly appreciate it if
- >someone could supply some answers to my questions which follow:
- >
- >1. Why are there two different versions of the Courier?
-
- Actually, there's more than two different versions of the Courier; the first
- that I know of was the Courier 2400 (I don't think that there was a Courier
- 1200, was there?), then the Courier 2400e (with MNP), then the Courier HST
- 9600, followed by the Courier HST 14.4 with ot without V.32 and the Courier
- V.32, then there was the square-LED Courier 14.4 with or without V.32bis and
- the Courier V.32bis, and then there were the smaller-footprint Courier 16.8
- with or without V.32terbo and the Courier V.32terbo (was there ever a smaller
- footprint V.32bis only modem?), and then finally the Courier V.Everything
- architecture that's on sale today.
-
- This apparently silly response is important, because I think that USR has
- never _sold_ a daughterboard-based 'V.Everything' modem; they sold
- daughterboard-based 'V.FAST upgradable' HST and V.32terbo modems so that, when
- V.34 was finalized, they could put as much CPU and DSP horsepower in the
- upgrade board as was necessary to implement the modulation. I am going out on
- a limb and guessing that all duaghterboard-based 'V.Everything' modems started
- out and were sold as 16.8 or 19.2/21.6 modems and became 'V.Everything' by
- upgrade.
-
- >2. Is one better (in any way) then the other? Performance
- >consideration... etc.
-
- As far as I know, the caller-ID thing is the first difference to come to
- light.
-
- >3. Other than being achitecturally different, are there any other
- >differences between the two versions?
-
- Yeah: one stopped selling about three years ago.
-
- >4. Since the daughterboard version does NOT support the CLID flash
- >upgrade, have the customers who bought this version been
- >"short-changed" in any sense?
-
- Given the information above, do you think that owners of daughterboard-based
- HST 16.8 and V.32terbo modems were short-changed?
-
- >5. Is there any way for me to reliably ascertain which version is
- >my Courier? (Opening up the modem is out of the question :) )
-
- If you bought it in a box that says 'V.Everything', then I doubt that it's an
- upgraded daughterboard-based modem. If you really want to prove it without
- opening the case then download and install the latest SDL which includes the
- caller-ID feature, enable it, and plug it into a line which has caller-ID and
- see what comes up.
-
- --
- Geoffrey Welsh, Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
- Temporary: crs0794@inforamp.net; At work: insystem@pathcom.com
- At home: geoff@zswamp.uucp or [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
- Capitalism is a cold-hearted system which guards the interests of whoever's
- at the top, yet hypocritically claims that it offers everyone a fair shot.
- So is every other system ever put in place by man.
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