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- From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
- Subject: Re: Word of Advice
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.194848.14672@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:48:48 GMT
- References: <9208250703.AA04647@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Aug26.063904.8574@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Aug26.063904.8574@samba.oit.unc.edu> Denny.Chuang@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Denny Chuang) writes:
- > University of Louisville
- >Phone: (502)588-6744
- >
- >DO NOT BUY A SUPRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- >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.
- [...]
- > I suggest for those people who don't like to live with with any
- > minor problems with their modem not to purchase any cheap priced
- > modems. Hey, if you perfer to save a few bucks and don't mind
- > those little bugs in it go for it. It's not bad at all!
- >
- > Seriously, all modems comes with 5 years or more
- > warranty, if you have time to wait for them to get those bugs out of
- > their ROMS someday you will get a perfect working modem.
- > That's what those warranties are there for. Right?
-
- Wrong. If the problem is something along the lines of cheap parts in the
- analog side of the box or perhaps (which I believe explains the horrid 'ping'
- latency test results of the Digicom Scout+, and probably applies to some of the
- el-cheapo Rockwell chipset modems, as well) a tremendously underpowered
- microcontroller as a CPU, 5 years of revisions to the EPROMS will do nothing
- at all. There's a 68030 in my Telebit, so I'm quite happy (though I don't
- really quite understand why _that_ much horsepower is needed to run the v.32bis
- side, yet Telebit say v.32bis is impossible on the slower T1600 platform, though
- I believe ZyXeL et. al do it just fine on similar hardware. Opinions anyone?)
- --
- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
- "Oh, you have wounded me! I have very few prejudices, actually. The
- biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools. That is why I have
- such a low tolerance level for Libertarians." -- Jim McMaster
-