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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Supra sucks: Modem problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.193811.17808@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <By0tEv.4IF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:38:11 GMT
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- In article <By0tEv.4IF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >Ok, so my modem stopped working after a lightning storm. (It's a
- >V.32FAX). There's no more dialtone, and I hear static noise, too.. so I
- >send it in to Supra to fix, and they send it back saying
- >it's repaired. Bullshit. I do "atdtxxxxxx" and there's 1) no dialtone
- >and 2) Some strange static garbage. So I get a return authorization #
- >and send it back to get a new unit. I got it back this morning, and
- >tried it out. NOW there is a dialtone, and it dials, but there's still
- >this stupid static in the background!!! And because of this static
- >noise, it won't connect at all. Now is this my machine or my setup? I
- >swear this modem worked fine before. Have any of you experienced this?
-
- I'm guessing that it might be your machine.
-
- NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER use the modem during a lightning
- storm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Can you borrow a modem from someone to see if the static sound is there? Or,
- can you bring your modem to somebody elses complter to see if the static sound
- is there?
-
- >It's really pissing me off, and I'm about to just send it in to get my
- >fucking money back. Supra is one of the slowest and most inefficient
- >companies I've had to deal with. It can't be any of the settings.. I
- >can't imagine any setting that would cause static - especially such
- >intense static as this. Well, apparently Supra is braindead.. please
- >reply if you have any idea what's going on. Thanks.
- >
- As it may be your machine (due to your using the thing in a lightning storm),
- it may not be that Supra is braindead.
- >--
- >Sam Hulick | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the
- >shulick@indiana.edu | courage to lose sight of the shore." --Anon.
- >(NeXTmail welcome) |
-
- Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
-