On Nov 21, 1995 at 08:19, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 db>> How often does one find onesself doing this?  Quite often with the M5
 db>> and M7F, but I haven't had to do it once with the M34F.
 BG>
 BG> The point is that it should be NEVER.

As I said, I have *not* had to do this at *all* with the M34F (ie., NEVER).  :-)

 BG> If they'd manufactured their product properly in the first place, you
 BG> wouldn't need a new motherboard (as in the series 3 abortions, for which
 BG> Netcomm gouged the public horribly).

The Series 3 was an abortion, yes;  but the M34F is Series 5, not Series 3.

 BG> And you must be lucky with your M34F, as there's a whole swag of these in
 BG> the field with buggy datapumps, fixable only by a complete chipset
 BG> replacement.

It's a 1995 ROM, and I never run with the manufacturer's defaults;  plain
'n' simple.  Once you hit on the "acceptable balance" for a
configuration (be it modem's NVR, CONFIG.SYS for DOS or whatever), then
everything should be smooth sailing from there on and so far that's been
the case with me.

 BG> No prizes for guessing who'll be asked to pay for that, either.

Yup.

 BG>> After all, they have to pay for their marble staircase somehow.  :)
 db>>
 db>> :-)
 BG>
 BG> If it wasn't so true, it'd be quite funny...

But it's a *really* *nice* looking staircase, too!  :-)
    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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