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- From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: Word of Advice
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.201027.5094@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 20:10:27 GMT
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- jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
- : In article <36942@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, bjs@neptune.phys.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) writes:
- : > In article <1992Aug26.063904.8574@samba.oit.unc.edu> Denny.Chuang@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Denny Chuang) writes:
- : > >
- : > > I know Supra, Zoom, boca are in the sam boat, all three companies offer
- : > > the lowest price avaliable for a 1`4.4k modem.
- : >
- : >
- : > Wait, I bought 8 Zoom 14.4 External Fax Modems, had to send one back, but they
- : > come with a 7 year warrenty. My question is what are the problems with the
- : > Zoom ? The 2 reasons that I bought that brand over XYZ modem is that I hadn't
- : > heard of any troubles with the Zooms. And the cost of the Zoom was 100 bucks
- : > less then PP's 14.4 modem. As for supras I just stayed away from them after
- : > the flood of problems and 4 month waiting lists.
- : > Could someone enlighten me ?
- :
- : I received a Zoom V.42bis VFX modem about 4 weeks ago.
- :
- : I rarely get cps over 1200, usually 800-900, I can't get it to work
- : with uucp for more than 3 - 4 minutes without ASSERT ERRORs, when I
- : use it with PC plus, odyssey, xc or cu to log into bbs or other UNIX
- : machines interatively it drops carrier after 3 - 4 minutes,
- : I've tried to phone Zoom, never answer, sorry, yes, they do answer
- : after 5 to tell you it is after 5 and it is now an aswering machine,
- : I have faxed them twice, no reply.
- :
- : BTW, it is great for faxes but slightly expensive for that.
- :
- : I am in the market for another modem and I have narrowed it down to
- : MultiTech, USR or Zyxel.
- : --
-
- Well, I have had NO problems with my Zoom 14.4 modem. It connects to several
- different modems just fine, including WorldBlazers, USR's, and others. I have
- never had problems with losing the line. Perhaps you have some register
- settings less than optimal, or noisy phone lines?
-
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