David, at 07:02 on Wed, Dec 14 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

LE> * 28800bps V.FC
LE> * 28800bps V.34 with V.FC fallback

DD> What modem falls back from V.34 to V.FC?  Mine falls back to slower 
DD> V34 speeds.

BG> Presumably he meant to say "V.FC capability".

DD> His credibility is beginning to wane . .

I started to suspect that he wasn't anywhere near as knowledgeable as he
tries to make out, when somebody kept asking him how he'd managed to backup
a 2400SA ROM (something he'd claimed to have done), yet his replies were
extremely cryptic, and basically indicated to me that he wasn't being quite
as truthful as he should.

As he's a dealer in cheap imported Taiwanese modems, I also have a sneaking
suspicion that he views USR et al as real threats to his livelihood.  Have
a look at this from the Netcomm echo...

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Date:   Tue Dec 13 1994 06:28:52
From:   Lewin Edwards
To:     Greg Radford
Subj:   Netcomm M7F
Attr:   
NETCOMM_SUPPORT  -------------------------------

GR> I am having probs dialing an overseas number, my modem seems to 
GR> begin to connect then just continues to "squeal" :) ... I
have tried 
GR> both 0011 and 0015 to get out of Aust ... but no luck!

Most of the probs I have had with o/s comms are because of the modem at the
other end. If it's a US Robotics V.34 modem at the other end, forget ever
being able to connect to it with a real modem.

It's not a NetComm problem either - I tried about ten different modems one
day, there was a file I /desperately/ needed on the other end.

Bloody buggy USR.

Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (melancholy, the male equivalent of Miss Havisham)

-!- GoldED 2.41+
 ! Origin: ZWSBBS 61-3-8276881 28800bps 24 Hours (3:634/396)
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No objectivity whatsoever (nor much truth either, I suspect), just blatant
slagging of USR products.  He wouldn't have dared posting that in
Aust_Modems!  |-)

Regards, Bill

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