BG> Dunno if you read the USR_MODEMS echo, but I know you read AUST_MODEMS, and 
BG> nobody else has EVER reported similar problems with the Courier.

PE> I've heard it all before, with the Spirit.  Everyone was saying
PE> how great it was, then I went and bought one, and then started
PE> telling everyone why it was a heap of shit.

BG> But Paul, the Spirit had several specifically documented deficiencies, some 
BG> of which I've even experienced myself.  I really wish I was in a position 
BG> to come and check your entire system and its setup.

No, *I* documented them.

BG> Maybe Paul's place is jinxed...

PE> I've seen you going head-first into my telephone line and
PE> now even supernatural beings in my house.  Funny you never
PE> mentioned these possibilities when I had a Spirit, which
PE> was having FAR more success than this modem.

BG> Unless the particular Courier you're using has some obscure fault, I still 
BG> don't believe that your current problems are modem-related.  I've had more 
BG> exposure to Couriers than 90% of people in Australia, and I've NEVER had 
BG> occasion to blame the modem for anything such as you describe.

More than 99.9% I would expect, so what?

PE> In fact, the success of the Spirit is enough to prove that
PE> the Courier has a fixable deficiency. 

BG> Nope, I refuse to believe that the Couriers are basically flawed.  My own 
BG> experiences with USRs suggests quite the opposite.  Have you checked your 
BG> serial I/O card yet?  Or your serial cable?

How can they affect what transpires between two modems?  And
what do you want me to check in my serial cable?  That CTS/RTS
work?  I *know* they work, otherwise I would be overrunning my
modem with data, when people connect to me at 14400 and I send
data at 57600.

BG> I also have to ask the question:  why hasn't Dave Drummond experienced any 
BG> of the problems about which you're complaining?  Think about it.

For the same reason that Dave Hatch never had the Spirit
problems until *I* documented, and Trev Roydhouse never had
any Spirit problems until *I* documented them.  Wait till I
start pressuring USR Courier owners in the echo.  The lack
of auto-baud detect is the most straightforward to test.  The
next will be letting Frank and Rod loose on them.

Hey Frank, want to sell your shitty 2400/1200 bps modem?  I
think I can make it work here.  BFN.  Paul.
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