Re: Winmodem support, some performance tradeoff estimates

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:22:06 -0400 (EWT)


On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 linker@z.ml.org wrote:

> I hope you havn't updated the rom on that Courier recently.. USR modems
> have become crap recently. A recnetly flashed Courier is luck to connect
> to anything except USR stuff... It's very very sad. I owned a Courrier
> 9600 HST, then a Dual standard, all very very good stuff.. Now they only
> sell junk.. I've got an Imodem, on a Linux IPMASQ box and I have to reboot
> it every too or three days or it just starts droping ISDN connections (I'm
> luckey to have a static IP)..

I concur. Ever since 3Com bought them out, their product quality have
dropped quite alarmingly. I must be one of the lucky ones to own a top
notch Courier bought 2 years ago - the ones out on sale badged as 3Com
aren't very nice. It's a pity because USR used to do very high quality
modems. Seems like the short sighted "profits before quality" policies
from the pointy haired bastards strikes back again.

Cheers,
Alex

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