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- From: jeremiah@ios.com (Jeremiah Kristal)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR or Motorola -- Which to buy??
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 12:27:21 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <4kitr9$5tq@News.IDT.NET>
- References: <4k3qd0$lai@raffles.technet.sg> <4kht66$ni8@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>
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- Scott Porter (porters@pbinet.com) wrote:
- : Dear Sir:
-
- : I work at a modem company called Zypcom (spun off of Racal-Vadic). we
- : manufacturer a modem called the Z34-SE which you might be interested in.
- : It has 33.6K to 300bps, full controller & DSP flashability, security,
- : etc. and has a street price about $350. It is the fastest 33.6 on the
- : market so if your interested in a quality high speed modem give me your
- : fax number and I'll send you some datasheets and article reprints about
- : Zypcom. Best regards.
-
- I don't like to speak poorly of a company, but I have had very bad luck
- with Zypcom. The tech support is great, Scott and the others will bend
- over backwards to help, but the modems are second rate in my mind.
- We purchased about 6 racks of the Z34-RX, Zypcom's rack mount model, and
- had nothing but trouble. They were supposed to be flash upgradable, but
- they hadn't quite got that worked out yet, so when we uncovered a serious
- flaw, we had to replace two chips per modem.
- Even after the upgrade the same problem continued to reappear, and we
- couldn't get a date when then next fix would be out.
- Zypcom may be fine if you are just going to use it for a desktop modem,
- but I would not recommend it for a workhorse in an ISP setting.
- I hope that Zypcom gets it together so that I can do something with the
- racks under my desk, but until then, look around.
- Sorry Scott, I hope you guys finally get it right.
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