On Nov 14, 1995 at 13:38, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:

 PE> Stop press!  One of the guys at Matranet (dial 371-9199 and log
 PE> on as "guest") has tested out about 8 different modems, including
 PE> Spirit Viper, Netcomm M34F, USR Courier V34, one that starts with
 PE> "W", etc, and says that the M34F was the best of the lot.

Don't forget that each user will have different problems with a product; 
for example, I've never had trouble mixing memory chip types and speeds in
my machine, whereas a lot of people used to complain that OS/2 would trap
with such a configuration.

It's nice to hear that I'm not the only person picking the M34F, though.  :-)

 PE> the USR Courier had a lot of line dropouts.

That surprises me - might have been a configuration issue.

 PE> The only thing that has me a bit worried is that David Begley sometimes
 PE> fails to connect with his to my Spirit, which means when I call other
 PE> Spirits I'm going to have the same problem.

*Maybe* - I don't run with the factory default configuration for starters,
and the problem is intermittment and the fault of the Spirit;  whenever I
connect to another modem (Banksia, USR, NetComm, Hayes, whatever) it's been
fine.

 PE> But then the ones like Bob Lawrence who never has a bad connect is a USR
 PE> Sportster, and yet other USR Sportsters have a problem, so it's pretty
 PE> inconclusive.

You'll never get a *perfect* modem or configuration, just a "best
average";  face reality and pick a product - I chose NetComm, Bill and
Bob chose USR.  In each case, our modems are fine .. it's just your Spirit
that's crap, that's all.  :-)

 PE> The other thing is the fast connects and V32terbo, but I guess they don't
 PE> amount to all that much.  BFN.  Paul.

Yup.  Go V.34.

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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