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- From: shb@vnet.net (Si Ballenger)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Avoid USR Sportster 33.6 [ was: Sportster and Courier]
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 15:46:07 GMT
- Organization: maybe later...
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- "Duane T. Williams" <duane+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
- >I have had a great deal of trouble with my new USR Sportster 33.6 modem
- >for my Mac. The problem is basically that it won't maintain a reliable
- >connection for very long -- 30 minutes if I'm lucky and then it drops
- >the connection. How do I know it's my modem? Well, I borrowed a USR
- >Sportster 28.8 modem from a friend and connected it to my Mac exactly as
- >my modem was connected. The 28.8 modem worked just fine. I tested it
- >for a week or more, leaving myself connected for 2 days at a time. I
- >concluded that there was probably nothing wrong with my computer's
- >connection to the modem, nor with my phone line. My Sportster 33.6
- >modem is not entirely broken. It seems to work normally -- for a while.
-
- I think in the past that there may have been some problems with
- these modems heating up. Experiment and see if it the connection
- problem is modem temperature dependent. Other readers may have more
- info on this type of problem. You might be able to get some past info
- by doing a search at the deja vue news site.
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