🚀 go-pugleaf

Relative to the  Network Computing Article - look at:

techweb.cmp.com

Regards,

Dick Stuart


In <4apvsv$pi8@news.greatbasin.net> storkus@heather.greatbasin.com
(Mike P. Storke) writes: 
>
>To: deanberg@eot.com
>Subject: Re: Modem with the best data pump
>Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech,comp.dcom.modems,alt.dcom.telecom
>In-Reply-To: <4ao9r2$fdq@swifty.cfa.org>
>References: <4afo2h$bk2@news.greatbasin.net>
>Organization: Great Basin Public Access UNIX, Reno, NV
>Cc: 
>Bcc: 
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>
>  Thanks for your response, but if you noticed, PP and Zoom were NOT
on my
>list, and for a reason: they use Rockwell chipsets, which I refuse to
use
>because of the myriad of problems such as the ones you described, as
well as
>just generally poor performance.
>  I've decided (more or less) against USR, because they seem to be
very bad
>(at least lately, this is my first time dealing with them) about their
customer
>service.  What happened?
>  The first time I called, I talked to some lady SPECIFICALLY asking
for info
>on ALL the USR lines, not just Sportster.  Guess what I get in the
mail a few
>days later?  That's right!  Nothing but Sportster junk (and the
Courier PCMCIA
>card modem).  I called again, left a message, got no response and no
mail back.
>Then I left an e-mail message at "sales@usr.com", and STILL nothing. 
I've
>given up for lack of customer service (or giving a damn about their
customers).
>I think they've just gotten too damn big for their britches.
>  I've seen another message confirming the Network Computing (which I
can't
>seem to be able to find) tests that show Penril outdid USR by almost
2:1.  My
>choices are now limited to AT&T Paradyne's Comsphere series modems and
>Penril's, though I'm leaning more and more toward Penril (I'm eagerly
awaiting
>their literature).  USR is out of my book (for reason's I've stated
above), and
>they've generally just pissed me off so I no longer want to deal with
them.
>  I'm gonna forward this to the list, FYI, so others see what is
happening.
>  Thanks again, Mike
>-- 
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>*Mike P. Storke N7MSD                  Snailmail: 2308 Paradise Dr.
#134  *
>*Inet: storkus@heather.greatbasin.com                 Reno, NV
89512-2712 *
>*Amateur: None--the little !?#%@* around here won't let me have one!! 
   *
>*Famous Sayings: "Pascal-The Handcuff of the Programmer." "Life sucks;
   *
>*then we die and go to hell, which is supposedly worse than life was!"
   *
>*Oh, yea, and DEATH TO THE PURPLE BEAST 666 AND ALL ITS
SPONGITES!!!!!!   *
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>-- 
>**********************************************************************
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>*Mike P. Storke N7MSD                  Snailmail: 2308 Paradise Dr.
#134  *
>*Inet: storkus@heather.greatbasin.com                 Reno, NV
89512-2712 *
>*Amateur: None--the little !?#%@* around here won't let me have one!! 
   *
>*Famous Sayings: "Pascal-The Handcuff of the Programmer." "Life sucks;
   *
>*then we die and go to hell, which is supposedly worse than life was!"
   *
>*Oh, yea, and DEATH TO THE PURPLE BEAST 666 AND ALL ITS
SPONGITES!!!!!!   *
>**********************************************************************
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