On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Brian Kramer wrote:
> > So we're just sol wiith the new modems who perform much worse
> > then the old when it concerns maintaining connections?
> >
> > I've got a lot of pissed off customers because the modems stink.
> > I can't beleieve you guys didn't test it with all the variety of
> > usrs sporsters at least.
> Impractical. Do you have any idea how many different varieties of
> Sportsters there are? I have 2 externals of different ages sitting at
> home unused because something's up with either my phone line or the one I
> use at work, and suddenly spiral death syndrome has revisited me. I
> connect at 24000 or 26400 and after a day or so, I'm at 12000/4800. I've
> gone to using a Microcom DeskPorte FAST (ancient v.FC model) and it's
> maintaining 21600/21600, but occasionally disconnects (but I have pppd
> -persist:). The modem at the FDT end is a Suckster 33.6.
> The point of all this is, there are lots of crap modems. Just because the
> new PM3 modems don't deal well with some crap modems doesn't make them
> crap.
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