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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: New Supra Sonic
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 21:30:50 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet3.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4krqqa$dsm@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4kmuqu$gtn@lassen.cnw.com>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet3.carleton.ca
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-
- Connect Northwest Customer (user@cnw.com) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > I'm wondering (besides the agreed upon spiffy new display) what the
- > differences between the new SupraSonic and the old SupraFAXmodem are. Is the
-
- Voice support, the LCD, and it uses the high powered Rockwell
- controller (instead of the slightly underpowered Rockwell control that
- Supra and many other companies use).
-
- > new modem Rockwell chipset based? Does it therefore have only the FlashROM on
- > the controlling code and not the DSP like the regular FAXmodem? The new modem
-
- That's about the lot of it. Same old Rockwell hard-coded datapump
- and FlashROM that only controls the controller code.
-
- > is called V.34+, but it's my understanding from checking out Supra's web page
- > that it doesn't support speeds above 28.8. Since the FAXmodem's already a
-
- It's not called v.34+ (and likely wouldn't be even if were a 33.6
- modem, I haven't seen a company refer to their 33.6 v.34 modems as "v.34+"
- for quite some time now.. but I digress), it's called a 288V+ or something
- like that. The 288 part would tend to suggest to me that it's a 28.8
- modem :>.
-
- > pretty spiffy modem, in my opinion, I'm wondering what improvements they've
- > made to the new SupraSonic. If it's just the display it's not worth 60 bucks
- > more IMO!
-
- Well, if you can live with a 2 character alphanumeric instead of a
- real LCD display, and don't need voicemail support, chances are there
- won't be much use in getting the SupraSonic over the SupraFAX. The Sonic
- uses a more powerful controller as I mentioned above, but the weakness of
- the standard Rockwell controller usually only comes up when you do
- bidirrectional transfer of uncompressed data (basically this means don't
- buy the SupraSonic expecting huge increases in throughput like Supra says
- on their web page).
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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