-= Pete Replied to Peter Shute about: Netcomm purchase =-

G'day Peter

 PS> Thanks for the reply.  I was all set to buy the Roadster, then I
 PS> saw the reviews in May APC,  which made it look bad.  They
 PS> tested several v34's for throughput, ability to cope with bad
 PS> lines etc.  They only tested with 2 of the SAME modem at a time
 PS> though.  A good modem is good with every other modem, which the
 PS> Roadster may be,  but they never tested that.

 PS> When I went to to buy it,  I was already having doubts because
 PS> of the reviews. Then I saw what a tiny little thing it was.
 PS> Probably means nothing,  but I thought I'd be paying extra to
 PS> get it that small,  so I bought an Avtek  Flashmodem.  It's
 PS> still Australian (from Netcomm??!!), and got the "best" review,
 PS> and is much cheaper.

Well the bad news is that the Avtek Flashmodem is really a Motorolla
Lifestyle with a Netcomm/Avtek sticker on it so it's not really
Australian at all :-( . Apart from that AFAIK the're a quite
reasonable modem.

   -=Pete=-

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