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- From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: USR bbs # needed & prices of sysop modems
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713907860snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>
- References: <34VgPB3w165w@ZGNews.LoneStar.Org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 19:44:20 GMT
- Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)
- Lines: 69
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- In article <34VgPB3w165w@ZGNews.LoneStar.Org>
- peterson@ZGNews.LoneStar.Org writes:
-
- > tdietz@tcedge.mi.org (Tom Dietz) writes:
- > > ...
- > > Ha, USR in my opinion, is one of the WORST companys to do business
- > > with.
- >
- > Your experiences doesn't reflect mine.
-
- they don't reflect my experiences, either. I've had very good support
- from USR, and have absolutely no problems with the high quality modem
- sitting in front of me. and btw, I work in the telecom biz, and deal
- with quite a few modems (among other things)...so that isn't based on
- just seeing this one modem.
-
- the setup for the DS is very quick and painless, unlike other modems
- from other (unnamed) vendors. the knowledge of the tech service folk
- at USR is very complete (at least, the ones I've dealt with). the
- documentation for the modem is very good, and the modem's default
- parameters don't require too much tuning for peak performance (again,
- unlike other unnamed vendors...the same ones, in fact).
-
- and just to be fair, let me add that USR is not the only vendor that
- the above applies to...they just happen to be the one being trashed
- by the original poster here.
-
- I've never had to work with USR's tech support on any problems with my
- DS (a good thing, IMHO), but when evaluating another line of modem they
- sell, which they bought out from another company (actually, they bought
- the company), I did run into some problems that were bought along with
- that other company's code/hardware. in most cases, the USR tech support
- folk were aware of the problem and had a fix before I'd even finished
- describing the problem. in other cases, where they hadn't seen it yet,
- they were able to duplicate it in their lab, and got back to me with a
- fix by the end of that same day.
-
- later on, when they'd replaced all of the old code with 100% USR code,
- and replaced the hardware with USR hardware, guess what....the problems
- all went away for real.
-
- one of the things that I know does happen is that people call the tech
- support number and won't leave a message if the queue is really long....
- they just sit there, and eventually hang up (dumb, really dumb). in
- doing this, not only do they lose their place in the queue, but they
- haven't let anyone know what the problem was, either.
-
- if anything, my only problem is that the sales droids are tough to
- get in touch with at times. but then, I run into that with sales
- droids from virtually every company I deal with (modems, muxes, T-1
- and/or T-3 circuits, CSUs, DSU/CSUs, test equipment, and so on....),
- so this isn't a problem unique to USR. let's face it, sales droids
- are expected to be onsite at a customer location at times.... :-)
-
- PLEASE NOTE: even though my employer is not named here, it's still
- worth noting that these are *MY* opinions, and not theirs.
-
- later....gotta get onto other things.
- --jim
-
- --
- Standard disclaimer....Ever since my cat learned to type, there's no telling
- whose thoughts these really are.... 73 DE N5IAL (/9)
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