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- From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
- Subject: Re: *Advice* needed on modems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.145129.14865@cs.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
- References: <14192@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:51:29 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In <14192@mindlink.bc.ca> David_Hunter@mindlink.bc.ca (David Hunter) writes:
-
- >I have been using the Supra 14.4 Fax/Modem for about a month now and have found
- >its performance to be questionable. As a fax machine it is completely
- >unreliable. I would say that my success rate in sending and receiving faxes
- >has been around 18 of 30 attempts. As a modem it has also behaved oddly. It
- >has managed to do things like reset itself to its default settings after I had
- >changed them and wrote them to "nonvolatile" memory. Also, I have been unable
- >to connect to some systems at high speed and have had to force the modem to a
- >lower baud to be able to get more than garbage on the screen---you can't even
- >connect to Supra at 14.4. In addition, I have experienced crashes during file
- >transfers that never happened with my old modem.
-
- - The Fax part is shaky, but have you considered the possibility
- that the OTHER end is at fault?
-
- - Not being able to connect to all systems at 14.4k is NORMAL.
- The standard telephone network supports speeds UP TO 14.4k, but bad
- lines are common everywhere. In less developed countries 14.4k would
- be utopia!
-
- - If your old modem was <14.4k have you considered the
- possibility that your comm program can't handle high speeds?
-
- - Yeah, Supra sometimes gets it wrong.
-
- >I understand that Supra is working on another ROM upgrade to correct some of
- >these problems, but the ship date for this fix is constantly being moved ahead.
- >The shop that sold me my Supra (BTW the first unit wouldn't fax at all and I
- >had to exchange it) has offered to exchange it for another brand. I am
- >seriously looking around for a comparable alternative myself.
-
- It seems that a lot of people are catching on to the "blame Supra for
- everything, including AIDS" thingie. OK, the V1.000 ROMs were crap,
- but the V1.200-C ROMs are much better. A large portion of problems
- reported seem to be caused by the user, not by the modem...
-
- A satisfied V1.200-C owner.
-
- --
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