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In article <3354f465.1042311@nntp.uunet.ca>, Anthony Hill <ahill@travel-
net.com> writes
>On 16 Apr 1997 14:17:45 GMT, mhoenig@ast.cam.ac.uk (Michael Hoenig)
>wrote:
>>I have decide to finally buy my own modem and it looks like two 33.6k modems
>>have made it to the final choice (because of price/quality considerations
>>mainly!): the Psion Dacom Surfer and the Diamond SupraExpress 336i (internal).
>>The Surfer got really good reviews, and I would be willing to purchase it
>>despite its rather garish (or "stylish" as the PR dept. puts it) exterior. The
>>SupraExpress also seems a good choice, and it seems to have Flash ROM which
>
>       FWIW the SupraExpress 33.6i does not have FlashROM.  The
>SupraExpress 56k does, the SupraFAXmodems and SupraSonics do, but not
>the plain old Express 33.6 (unless this was changed recently and/or
>different for the UK as opposed to North America).

This certainly was different in the UK and probably still is different.

My general impression is that in the US Supra have always sold one or
two modems at the bottom of their line as "Express", these modems lack
flash.  When Supra have sold modems in the UK ( as opposed to US modems
imported here ), then all their UK models have lacked flash and so are
designated "Express".  I imagine this has been done to avoid telecoms
approval problems work for upgraded flash images.  Of course all this
may change during 56K transition.

[snip good stuff about internal & PnP]

>       Anyway, as for the modems, I can't rally comment on the Psion
>Dacom Surfer since I've never heard of it.  As for the SupraExpress
>though, I'd definately avoid that one.  Supra makes soem excellent
>modems in their FAXmodem and Sonic line, but in all testing their
>Express line is outperformed by the FAXmodem and Sonics by a LONG
>margin (like an Express getting 2500byte/s+ on a Network sim test
>where the FAXmodems are getting about 3000byte/s).

I think that the UK SupraExpress 336 V+ modems may be non-flash versions
of US Sonic models,  but that is only a guess.

>  In that sort of
>price range, the modem that I'd personnaly recommend would be the
>Motorola ModemSURFR 33.6.

Interestingly, I think that ModemSURFR is an AT&T HMS288 based modem, 
like the Psion Dacom Surfer.  That is not to say that they necessarily 
show equal performance, you understand.

Regards
-- 
Dave English, Turnpike Modem Support, T U R N P I K E  Ltd
Dorking Business Park, DORKING, Surrey, UK. RH4 1HN
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