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- From: vsarkela@convex.csc.FI (Vesa S{rkel{)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Your comments on Supra modems
- Keywords: Supra V.32bis modem problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.202949.11292@nic.funet.fi>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 20:29:49 GMT
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- In <17906@pitt.UUCP> gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu (Gary Walborn) writes:
-
- >To whom it may concern:
-
- > YES! I have been having a lot of problems with my V.32bis Supra
- >modem. It has been back to Supra twice and is still not "right". Supra
- >claims that everything is OK, but I have had nothing but problems connecting
- >(and staying connected) to a number of systems. The symptoms change from system
- >to system, but generally involve:
-
- > A report of 14.4 on the display but no "CONNECT" message to the
- > computer.
-
- Sometimes it even doesn't recognize the tone from the other modem!
-
- > A series of "RT" retrains from which the modem never recovers.
-
- at%e0%g0 will get rid of these
-
- > A failure to negotiate rates properly with certain other brands.
-
- > A need to constantly change the modem setting to get satisfactory
- > connects with other systems.
-
- >I am just about to dump this thing and get a proper modem! You might wonder
- >how I know that the problems are with the Supra.... Well, I still have my old
- >USR Dual Standard available when I need it. When I am having these problems,
- >I switch in the US Robotics and *BINGO* all of the problems disappear. I wish
- >that this modem worked half as well as the USR!
-
- I'm also very disappointed with Supra
-
- > I would like to know how many other people are having this connect
- >and retrain problem? I have DOZENS of <1 minute phone calls where the modem
- >attempted a connnect and simply failed (sometimes with a "line busy" message!).
- >This is beginning to cost me BIG money.
-
- I also had this problem, but at%e0%g0&w0 took care of it...
-
- >BTW, most of these problems STARTED with the NEW ROMS! Now I can't even put
- >the old ROMs back in because I returned them with the modem and Supra kept
- >them. :-(
-
- I switched back to C-ROMs, they are definitely better than H-ROMs!
-
- >Sincerely,
-
- >Gary D. Walborn <gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu>
-
- Vesa Sarkela Keskuslaboratorio Oy
- vsarkela@convex.csc.fi Finnish Pulp & Paper Research Institute
-