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

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

Yes, but its likely that a Yum Cha would have atleast as many problems
as the USR and you cant readily just drop in new code if USR does fix
the current warts. Corse you do save half the price of a USR too.

Does Paul want his USR, he might like to flog it to you for less
than retail so he can buy something different with the cash himself.

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

True, I've always been keen on punishing the bastards for lousy
service. Corse that also means that Netcon is a problem too.

PE> And the Netcomm has a problem right from the start.  It doesn't connect
PE> to various USR Couriers at 28800.  The USR Courier is a real-world
PE> modem, and I want to be able to connect to it with my new modem.

True, and some very real doubts about how
dedicated Netcon is to fixing that problem too.

PE> Since it's a bit of a tossup, I think I might go for the
PE> Netcomm, because at least I can ring them up locally, and
PE> get other people to try dialling the Netcomm board, etc.

Maybe. OTOH you can argue that atleast with the USR you can change ALL the
code with minimal effort if a fix does turn up for the residual warts. And
they do appear to be prepared to work on them most of the time. OTOH its
still rather overpriced IMO, particularly when compared with yum cha modems.
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