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- Path: uucp.primenet.com!picove!kuno
- From: kuno@picove.com (Bryon Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: USR 28-33 Modems
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <kuno.05qz@picove.com>
- Date: 20 Mar 96 22:29:06 MST
- Organization: Pirate's Cove BBS
-
- On Wed 20-Mar-1996 1:04a, flatfoot wrote:
- f>
- f> Anyone using a USR Sportster 28-33k??
-
- f> I hear all sorts of stories about them not working very well, then I hear
- f> that those made after june 95 (?) are ok.
-
-
- I just got mine a couple of weeks ago and they connect usually between 26400
- and 28800 all the time.
-
- f> I do not execpt to hook up at 33k with anyone, but what I read says that
- f> because of being capible of 33k it makes a good 28k hook up more likely.
- f> But
- f> then I hear that the 33k chip is buggy and will not hook up to anything
- f> but
- f> another USR with 33k, and if it does it is at a very low rate.
-
- Mine connects to primenet (My ISP) at 33600 bps everytime I call with my Amiga
- 3000. And usually connects at 28.8k on other 28.8s.
-
- f> I read the USR paper on 33k theory, it said that in order to get the
- f> higher
- f> speed benfits you must use a advanced software package that was free from
- f> them. Is this software for the modem or the computer??
-
- I didn't need any special software to connect at this speed. (But my modem is
- hooked up to a GVP IOextender)
- kuno@picove.com
-