-=> Quoting Bill Grimsley to David Drummond <=-



 BG> I would normally agree with you there, but I have found the Dynalinks

 BG> to be one of the better Taiwanese imports, and given that their 33600

 BG> V.34+ model almost certainly ISN'T Rockwell-based, I now wonder if

 BG> they're perhaps rebadged USR V.34+ Sportster internals?  I'd love to

 BG> see one close up...



I think you've already seen one before...

 

I was quite suprised when I discovered a few commands not in my

Dynalink manual, one being ati11:

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ati11                                                                           

USRobotics Sportster 33600 V.34+ Fax Link Diagnostics ...



Modulation                  Unknown Speed

Carrier Freq     (Hz)       1959/1959

Symbol Rate                 3429/3429

Trellis Code                64S-4D/64S-4D

Nonlinear Encoding          ON/ON

Precoding                   ON/ON

Shaping                     OFF/ON

Preemphasis      (-dB)      2/4

Recv/Xmit Level  (-dBm)     15/10

SNR              (dB)       43

Near Echo Loss   (dB)       20

Far Echo Loss    (dB)       60

Round Trip Delay (msec)     4



OK

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Askey Corporation is now ISO9001 certified manufacturer and probably

makes Sportsters for USR as well as their own rebdged version.



 DD> does that mean you can flash the USR flashrom into it?



 BG> Very droll.  Don't forget that V.34+ - or is it V.34 (1996) ? - was

 BG> supposed to be ITU-ratified this month, too. 

 DD> The V.34+ Dynalink can't be any worse than the V.34 Maestro.



Mine has a socketed EPROM (I think it is actually EEPROM - can't

feel a window under a sticker). I doubt (that's only my gut feeling)

you can flash new code as a user upgrade but there certainly is an

upgrade path if and when new code becomes available.



I write this paragraph a few hours later, after I've seen Dynalinks

press release about new V34+ - they say it is flash upgradeable. Who

knows, it could be true?



Tom



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