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Article #594Re: USR 56K (X2)
From: TAZ
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:00
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Does anyone know a US Robotics phone number ? It has to be a 1-800 & Voice number ! TAZ, jrcb39c@prodigy.com On Fri, 07 Mar 97 14:54:49 GMT, damore@nac.net (Damore) wrote: >Funny, I have the same computer, only with 70 meg of ram, and it >worked fine... It worked so damn well that I went out and got two >more, which also worked fine on my other Linux box, my win95 comp... >My girlfriend got one also and it works fine on her PB cd-60mhz with >win95... > >Never had to call tech support, which suprised me! >Maybe their support does suck, but I never had experience with it, so >I can't say... I did call some other number tho, to get some free >diskettes (suure, I don't have a cd-rom :) ), and the woman I spoke >with there was damn nice, and my disks arrived in two days.. > >Sorry ya had such bad luck with it... > >Chris > >CD Unix Solutions > 377 2nd Avenue > New York, N.Y. > 10002 > >In article <MPG.d88f2d7b022ba1a9896a1@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, > sasohn@worldnet.att.net (Steven Sohn) wrote: >>I just finished returning one of these USR modems to my supplier. As >far >>as I am concerned, it is not a finished product yet. >> >>I have a Hewlett Packard P166, with a ton of RAM (80megs), and a >pretty >>good moving machine in general. I installed the modem and it would >NOT >>work. Now you do not have to be a genius, or even good with a can >opener >>to install a plug and play modem, but the USR 56K would not get to >the >>port to dial. Kept getting messages that another device was using the >>modem -- right. >> >>So I called their tech support, held for about a half hour. Then I >took >>the "free support" advice, and went to the "no waiting" 900 number. >HAH! >>That number told me I had to wait. >> >>Uhhh, lemme see now, this is a foolproof modem, but all the tech >lines >>are tied up? That about right? >> >>So I went online -- love my Digitan oem modem! -- and tried to >contact >>USR tech support online. They sent me five pages of document titles. >GO >>AWAY!! I want the damned thing to work, not reading material for next >>summer. >> >>TAKE YOUR TIME, WORLDNET -- This one don't work too good. And Thank >You >>Hewlett Packard for the Digitan 28.8 that still works just fine. >> >>Okay, that was my brush with folly. Maybe Motorola or Rockwell will >come >>out with one that works, this USR does not work in my machine, and >their >>support really bites it. >> >>ss
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114914,be81b268dd6206a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114914,public X-Google-Thread: 1149bd,be81b268dd6206a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1149bd,public X-Google-Thread: 12b952,be81b268dd6206a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid12b952,public X-Google-Thread: 140b98,be81b268dd6206a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid140b98,public From: me@buzz.off (TAZ) Subject: Re: USR 56K (X2) Date: 1997/03/12 Message-ID: <3326e215.5946435@News> X-Deja-AN: 224941878 References: <MPG.d88f2d7b022ba1a9896a1@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <5fpacg$139$1@news.nac.net> Organization: (missing) Newsgroups: can.usrgroup,fido7.usr,t-netz.modem.usr,worldnet.survey.newsite