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- From: frommer@empnet.com (D.W. Frommer II)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: sportster33.6 and fax.
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 22:09:13 GMT
- Organization: EmpireNet, Bend, OR
- Message-ID: <3166e553.775595@news.empnet.com>
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- Well, you live and you learn! I traded my Supra 28.8 for a Sportster
- 28.8 some 6 months ago, despite all the words of caution -- temperate
- and not so temperate -- simply because my ISP was using sportsters. I
- felt that with the reputation they had, USR might have a problem but
- that they would surely take care of both the problem and their loyal
- customers. I simply could not believe that any company would be so
- cavalier.
-
- To tell the truth, I haven't had much problem with it, although
- support IS, for all intents and purposes, NON-EXISTENT.
-
- But I recently got the 33.6 upgrade chip. It was difficult to
- install--actually the difficulty came in trying to extract the old
- chip. USR sends a "tool" (a generous description for a cheap,
- worthless, Cracker Jack prize) and the tool bent before the old chip
- ever even budged. Finally, in desperation I pried the old chip out
- with one prong of a non-magnetic tweezers (came with a computer tool
- kit)but I felt nervous every second of the way as the plastic casing
- around the chip seat seemed in imminent danger of cracking. After that
- the new chip popped right in and in minutes I was up and running.
-
- Data transmission seems fine although I have yet to see a 33.6
- connection and only one above 288 -- 288 connections are normal but no
- more certain with the new chip than before.
-
- BUT!! Fax transmission has gone completely to hell. Winfax won't work
- right, and neither will Procom+2.1. NOBODY, but nobody wants to take
- responsibility and USR is stonewalling... as usual.
-
- Datastorm said enter at+fts=8. I get "ERROR". Datastorm says something
- is wrong with the modem. USR is mum as usual.
-
- So today I extracted the "new" chip -- the 336 upgrade -- and
- reinstalled the old rom (STILL tight as rubber castration ring) but
- GUESS WHAT!!?? The fax functions seem to be working fine now. I still
- get "ERROR" when I enter at+fts=8, but procom, at least, is now faxing
- like it was programmed that way and although I haven't' tried winfax
- yet, I got this tingling-all-over-feeling that it will work fine...
-
- And USR can shove it! They will NEVER get my business again!
- --
- Tight Stitches -- DWF II
-
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