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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:50:03 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
- Subject: A footnote on Digicom modems...
- Comments: To: Words-L and the Bandwidth Hogs <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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- For those of you who were talking about getting the Prodigy offer...
-
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- From: darylm@illian.mnet.com (Daryl V. McDaniel)
- Subject: Re: Prodigy's "Eagle" modem
- Summary: V.32bis NOT
-
- In article <1992Dec17.185008.17205@trintex.uucp> elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravin)
- writes:
- >In article <hatton.724477507@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom
- Hatton) writes:
- >> I think the Prodigy version [of the Digicom modem] is [not V.32 bis]
- >>... I could be mistaken.
- >
- >The Digicom Eagle modem being sold over the Prodigy service is a complete
- >V.32bis/ V.42bis / fax modem.
- ^^^^^^^
-
- THIS IS NOT TRUE! My wife received her Eagle modem last night. It is
- V.32, and NOT V.32bis. Quoting from the manual:
-
- The Eagle V.32 fax/modem can be upgraded from a V.32 9600 bps
- data modem to a V.32bis 14,400 bps data modem, resulting in a
- 50% increase in data transmission speed without effecting fax
- capabilities in any way.
-
- For more information regarding the Eagle modem upgrade, please
- contact Prodigy Services Company. In the upcoming months,
- Prodigy will be providing details regarding upgrade
- procedures, policies and pricing.
-
- NOTE: All references to Eagle+ apply to an upgraded Eagle
- modem. If you have not yet upgraded your modem, these
- features are not yet available to you.
-
- The use of the word "effecting" instead of "affecting" is theirs, not
- my typo.
-
- I hooked the modem up and checked it out. It is definately NOT
- V.32bis. Otherwise, it works OK.
-
- There is NO documentation provided on the FAX capability. No
- commands, response codes, or even mention of FAX except they keep
- calling it a "fax/modem".
-
- The original ad in the "Prodigy Star" (which I still have) states that
- the modem is V.32bis. Unless the pricing of the upgrade is $0.00
- (FREE) then they have been a bit deceptive on this from the start.
-