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...

PE> Ummmm, my plan was actually to drop down in price to either a 
PE> Netcomm or a Yum Cha modem.  My logic being that if I'm going

Aha, I just saw the Motorola Lifestyle for $475 in AUST_ADS.
So who is this Motorola mob?  Are they an Australian company?
You said we had access to the designers.  Where are they 
located - Sydney?  And how?  Do they frequent a Motorola echo
or what?  And when you say trouble-free, do you mean that from
a BBS sysop point of view, who gets a large number of different
modems calling?  BFN.  Paul.
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