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Article #403Remember that crummy Rockwell HCF Winmodem?
From: Melissa
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00
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Some of you may remember the post I did here awhile back about my experiences with the Amquest Rockwell HCF chip set Winmodem. I bought it back in March and later found out had one of the worst reputations of any ever made. It dropped out on me all the time. But I later found out that not all Winmodems are bad, nor do they have to be expensive to be good. It seems the Lucent DSP Mars chip set Winmodem is one of the best modems made, and it's cheap. I bought one for $24 from an Ebay seller at <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=166397142> downloaded the latest generic driver for it at Lucent's site ( version 5.54 ), and haven't had a single dropout since. It's been nothing but great for me. If I'm going to complain about the bad ones, I also want to praise the good ones when I find them. This is a VERY good working modem for me. -- - Melissa <http://www.dimensional.com/~melissa/> To email me, remove the spam spoofing Caps on each side of the @ If called upon, would you help? <http://www.dimensional.com/~melissa/upanew.htm> Please boycott Orbital Sciences Corp.& American Express / First Data Corp. until they do the right thing! <http://www.dimensional.com/~melissa/jennifer.htm>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,3879a2a5ff6c5554,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,3879a2a5ff6c5554,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,3879a2a5ff6c5554,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 107cd9,3879a2a5ff6c5554,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107cd9,public From: MelissaS@Wdimensional.com (Melissa) Subject: Remember that crummy Rockwell HCF Winmodem? Date: 1999/11/01 Message-ID: <RulT3.405$Og.652@wormhole.dimensional.com> X-Deja-AN: 543189791 X-Trace: wormhole.dimensional.com 941483057 206.124.3.214 (Mon, 01 Nov 1999 12:04:17 MDT) Organization: Dis User-Agent: Xnews/2.09.25 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 12:04:17 MDT Newsgroups: co.consumers,co.general,alt.consumers.experiences,misc.consumers