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- From: Richard.Town@f235.n254.z2.fidonet.org (Richard Town)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: To All Those Who Think They Know A Lot About Computer Stuff!!!
- Date: 09 Apr 96 12:33:06
- Organization: Barney's Rubble
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- -=> Quoting Javier A. Perez to All <=-
-
- JAP> Despite what everybody has said around here, I am inclined to think
- JAP> that it is a modem problem. I remember some Rockwell chips had a
- JAP> problem where they would start to try and adjust for line conditions
- JAP> and end up in a downward spiral dropping and dropping their speed
- JAP> until it was practically nothing.
-
- That was an early Sportster problem not Rockwell called SDS
- (spiral death syndrome):
-
- LG> ─────── Dear USRobotics Customers:
- LG>
- LG> USR has received many comments about a condition identified by some
- LG> users as Spiraling Death Syndrome. The conditions stated are that the
- LG> Sportster v.34 modem degrades it's throughput speed as the product
- LG> heats up.
- LG>
- LG> Although we have been unable to duplicate the problem on a large
- LG> scale, we have duplicated these symptoms on a very intermittent basis.
- LG> However, the current release of v.34 code (dated 4/18/95) has allowed
- <snip>
- LG> Regards
- LG> Terry Dobson
- LG> USRobotics On-Line
-
- rgdZ
- Richard
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