Re: 56k vs. the Great Telephone Experiment

Jeffrey J. Mountin (sysop@mixcom.com)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:23:13 -0500

At 03:08 PM 8/28/97 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
>I'm seeing some 44k connections from a Diamond Supra 56k external flashed
>to v1.003.
>
>It is known to have connection problems with PM3's (and probably other
>systems) says Diamond. A lot of the time it gives up trying to connect at
>56k and ends up connecting at 28.8k or 31.2k. It seems to be problems
>with the software on the modem.

Welcome to the endless beta.

When Supra became a part of Diamond Mulitmedia, I lost faith in their
driver development. Almost could swear that they replaced all of Supra's
coders, judging by what I dealt with (no more, thank god!) when we still
had our analog dial-up.

On the positive side they worked very well with the AD cards in the PM3.
Have yet to upgrade, but plan to notify customers of the beta code and my
recommendation. Wait a bit.

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