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- From: victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (V Menayang)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: What exactly does this EPROM fix? (Re: PPI 1.14g EPROM available)
- Message-ID: <76845@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:05:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.004910.15806@panix.com> <Bs2HA0.3pE@news.udel.edu> <1992Jul28.153502.18163@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul28.153502.18163@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> au141@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Amber M. Spillers) writes:
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- >In a previous article, schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) says:
- >
- >>Jesus Christ.
- >>
- >>ZyXEL bends over backwards to get new code in the hands of owners as
- >>fast an humanly possible. Why do companies like PPI continue to play
- >>such stupid games with owners of their products?
- >>
- > I imagine it is an attemp to support the illusion of reliability, 90%
- >of users willl belive you if you tell them nothing is wrong it must be
- >something you are doing.... as noted before, after they realize you are
- >not one of these users they give in and send you out the proms. but it
- >is better to have people say "I had a hard time setting up their modem"
- >than people saying "their roms have bugs". it shifts the blame.
- >
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- Funny you should mention this. That's exactly my impression
- when I learned that PPI doesn't release the information about
- fixes done in each EPROM upgrade. That way they can always
- claim that an EPROM upgrade addresses any bugs you can come
- up with. About a month ago I wrote the following on
- comp.dcom.modems:
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- .>Date: 27 Jun 92 20:55:03 GMT
- .>Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 14.4k question...
- .>Message-ID: <74808@ut-emx.uucp>
- .>
- .>
- .>From a correspondence with a PPI's support person it is apparent
- .>to me that it is against PPI's policy to release information
- .>about the fixes contained in each EPROM release.
- .>The only way to tell whether or not a problem is solved
- .>by the new EPROM is to test it out. Of course, you can configure
- .>the modem in many different ways so that it's difficult to tell
- .>whether the new EPROM doesn't fix the problem or the modem is
- .>set incorrectly.
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- Victor Menayang victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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