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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Word of Advice
- Message-ID: <BtKBps.440@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 23:25:02 GMT
- References: <9208250703.AA04647@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <9208250703.AA04647@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MLPOWE01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU (Michael Powell) writes:
- >Resist the temptation and buy something worth your money...not a $350 (or
- >whatever the price) paper weight. I've gone through three and number three
- >will probably go out this afternoon...none have worked. Instead of seeing
- >some LD savings (over 2400 baud), I've paid lots more to send this damn thing
- >back and forth between here and Oregon....it isn't worth the stress.
-
- Well, my Supra V.32bis FAXmodem has worked fine ever since I got it.
- (Well, I take that back. No, it isn't perfect. The speaker has
- started to go, I think -- it's starting to sound distorted on carrier
- tones, whereas when I first got it it worked fine. And there are a
- few problems with the ROMs still.) A friend of mine had a similar
- experience; his modem worked fine from day one. On the other hand,
- someone else where I work went through FOUR modems before she got one
- that worked. The first three were all defective, but in different
- ways each time.
-
- Are you sure your distributor didn't just have a batch of bad/old
- modems that they were trying to get rid of?
-
- >Buy a nice USR or something (I hate to say that, seeing as the only contact
- >I've ever had with them was extremely poor....awful public relations).
-
- Well, I dunno about USR. I know that the Telebit WorldBlazer and
- T3000 -- now that they have fixed the bugs in the early ROM revisions
- -- work well and are really nice modems. And Telebit's tech support
- is second to none. (Why did I buy a Supra, then? Because I could
- have bought two Supras for the price of one WorldBlazer. Price won
- out in the end, I suppose.)
-
- People buying a modem just have to decide which they want more, a low
- price or good service and tech support. If you want the service and
- support, then you buy from one of the well-known big companies out
- there, like Telebit, US Robotics, or Hayes. If you want a low price,
- then there are five or six companies (Supra, Zyxel, Zoom, Practical
- Peripherals, Intel, etc.) out there repackaging the Rockwell V.32bis
- chipset and selling a modem. You won't get great service or support,
- and your modem may break a bit more frequently or have cheaper parts
- in it, but you *will* get a low price. Remember, folks: You get what
- you pay for.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't make backups. Real men never
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | accidentally delete files that they're going
- | to need later.
-