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- From: Richard.Town@f235.n254.z2.fidonet.org (Richard Town)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Why does USR charge a premium for their Sportster modems?
- Date: 09 Apr 96 12:33:00
- Organization: Barney's Rubble
- Message-ID: <866_9604100021@fidouk.fidonet.org>
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- -=> Quoting Daniel Ayers to All <=-
-
- DA> It took me two weeks to hack together a (three-line!) init string that
- DA> would reliably initialise a Zoom modem! You wouldn't believe the
- DA> I've been around a bit with modems, I've run a BBS for 5 years].
-
- Then you'll know that some fax strings are not saved to NVRAM so extra
- strings for the fax side are necessary
-
- DA> I replaced the Zooms with USR Sportster modems. I initialised them
- DA> with AT&F1 AT&W and configured the init string to put the modem into
- DA> Class 2.0 fax mode and do adaptive answering.
-
- You didn't init with just AT&F1 for adaptive answering
-
- DA> answered 200+ data and some FAX calls very reliably for more than a
- DA> year.
-
- What software did you then use for adaptive answering?
-
- DA> Attempting adaptive answering on a Zoom used to make it crash more
- DA> often than not.
-
- Did you have a NZ national approved model (WorldClass)? or a US standard?
-
- DA> PC Magazine did lots of tests on modems last year. They rated the
- DA> Sportster very highly (they said that most modems performed better when
- DA> connected to a sportster than when connected to another of the same
- DA> type) and they rated the Zoom as the bottom of the heap.
-
- That was a four page colour advert bought and paid for by USR
-
- DA> they managed to connect to a Zoom only 40% of the time during their
- DA> tests.
-
- No. Here are the Henderson Lab's reports showing, in connectivity terms
- the Zoom V34X to be third:
-
- SH> Henderson Labs. TSB-38 Testing:
- SH>
- SH> Connect Success Rate:
- SH> US Robotics Sportster 100%
- SH> AT&T Dataport V.34 90%
- SH> Zoom V.34 88%
- SH> Boca V.34 82%
- SH> Hayes Accura 77%
- SH> PPI MT288MT 65%
-
- rgdZ
- Richard
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