PE> At this stage, I will not be touching the USR Courier with a barge pole.  

AM> Have you tried the Motorola Lifestyle? Once you set &R0%R2 and
appropriate 
AM> commands to give the connect responses you want it is a pretty well 
AM> trouble-free V.34 modem with V.42 and V.42bis...

AM> Otherwise, you could get one of the newer Motorola 3265's at about $1300...

Ummmm, my plan was actually to drop down in price to either a 
Netcomm or a Yum Cha modem.  My logic being that if I'm going
to have problems, I may as well spend the least amount of money
to get them.

On this system I have run a Spirit Thunder, which had heaps of
problems, a Spirit Viper for a week, which only had minor 
problems, and a USR, which had heaps of problems.  If I were to
go for the Netcomm or Yum Cha I would be running blind, so you
could argue that I should get the Spirit Viper, but I didn't
have long enough with the modem to properly test it, and besides,
I am really pissed off with MBE's attitude to NOT fixing the
Spirit double-send problem.

And the Netcomm has a problem right from the start.  It doesn't
connect to various USR Couriers at 28800.  The USR Courier is
a real-world modem, and I want to be able to connect to it with
my new modem.  Since it's a bit of a tossup, I think I might go
for the Netcomm, because at least I can ring them up locally,
and get other people to try dialling the Netcomm board, etc.
BFN.  Paul.
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