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- From: dr_baud@ix.netcom.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Upgrade?
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 03:16:29 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- jpohler@ix.netcom.com (Jack Pohler) wrote:
-
- >I understand that there is an upgrade available for the USR Sportster
- >28,800. Currently, I am connecting to NetCom with Win95. I never
- >connect at a rate higher than 26,400. My question is, for this
- >connection would the upgrade do me any good or is the bottleneck
- >somewhere else? If you have any experience with a similar situation, I
- >would like to hear from you.
-
- >Thanks
-
- >Jack
- >-------------------------
- >Jack Pohler
- >Hudsonville, MI
- >jpohler@ix.netcom.com
- >-------------------------
-
- Jack,
-
- I live in Muskegon, and also connect to Netcom in Grand Rapids. I
- have the Sportster with DSVD and just recently went thru the upgrade
- procedure to 33.6. Before the upgrade, I got 26.4 connections about
- 1/2 the time, the rest were 24K. After the upgrade, I get 24K about
- 95% of the time, with a rare 26.4 connection thrown in. It's worth
- remembering that my modem is different from the normal Sportsters.
- Regardless of whatever those differences may be, I don't think Netcom
- is gonna let us connect at 33.6 anyway.
-
- I have read that the new symbol table rate is supposed to help even if
- you don't connect at 33.6 or 28.8. In other words, if you get 50% 24K
- connects and 50% 26.4, supposedly your percentage of 26.4 connects
- would increase. As I mentioned above, mine actually went down. It
- seems likely that both modems would have to support whatever symbol
- table is going to be used. Since I have the 3200 symbol table, I'm
- assuming that Netcom's modems don't (at least in Grand Rapids).
-
- My bottom line is that you should probably hold off for now. I
- believe Netcom will eventually get around to installing the faster
- modems in G.R., and maybe by that time USR will have worked out some
- of the kinks on their end.
-
- - Steve
-
-