Peter McGrath said to Vladimir Carlos:
 PM> Good luck in your quest. Nothing I ever did to my old junky
 PM> Optima v.34  ever made it useful as a bbs modem.
Maybe plugging it in and switching it on would help.
 PM> BTW, What problems are you having... let me guess... dropped
 PM> Carriers, failed connects, many retrains, Low cps rates. (sound
 PM> familiar??) 
None of that sounds familiar here.  I've been using them for years and they 
work great.  I routinely connect long distance with a USR v.e and get 26k4 or 
better.  I also connct with Madrid and Sydney on occaision, and the transfers 
go great.
Maybe you got a dud, maybe you had phone line problems, maybe you just didn't 
have it set up right.  Don't bash the entire product line because you 
couldn't manage to get yours to work.
-dw 
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