CS>> I need a little help with the above modem. I bought three for the BBS

 CS>> (before seeing all the talk about their performance) and simply cannot

 CS>> get with a 33.6 connects at 28.8K or even 26.4K etc), and after a while

 CS>> the modem doesn't even acknowledge a RING when someone calls. It just

 CS>> sits there and doesn't even flicker. Any ideas?



 LE>> Lift your telephone's handset. Dial 013. When you hear the human

 LE>> operator, say "The Office of Fair Trading and Business
Affairs". You

 LE>> will be told a number. Write this number down. Replace the handset.

 LE>> Wait 2 seconds. Lift the handset. Dial the number you wrote down. When

 LE>> you hear the human operator, ask to be mailed the necessary forms to

 LE>> make a complaint to the Small Claims Tribunal. Replace the handset.

 LE>> Wait a few days. Complete the forms that arrive in your mailbox. Mail

 LE>> them in. Await your refund.



 JP> Or, he could simply take that modem back to the store and come home with 

 JP> a

 JP> better modem which will live up to its expectations.



 LE>> The Roadster is moderately useful as a device for wedging open the

 LE>> door of your neighbor's budgie cage. It is of little or no use as a

 LE>> telecommunications device.



 JP> I had a Roadster plugged into a laptop I was working on recently. I had 

 JP> it in

 JP> such a position where I kept mistaking it for the mouse ...



After All, It is a "Roadster" Aren't you meant to drive them around.



Russell

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