🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:49:42 +0000, "Matthew Thompson"
<matt.thompson@dial.pipex.com> wrote:


>Having assisted in that modem test I can confirm that there were no
>modem direvers for the USR modems included in the packages and that we had
>to download the drivers from their BBS.  

No and I agree, I have just purchased an USR 33,600 voice and there
are definitely no drivers with it.

>However your staement that the modems would not connect at 33,600bps is
>incorrect. It was only stated the the modems initially had to be installed
>as generic 28,800bps modems and then the correct drivers obtained. It was
>also commented that this was not the way in which we would like to see
>modems supplied.

Well in my copy it says this for the USR 33,600 "You don't buy a bit
of kit that can run at 33,600 only to be forced to use it at a lesser
speed". I find this a little misleading as the modem will run quite
happily at 33,600 using the standard Win95 28,800 modem.

I found that the Modem worked fine with both Pipex and BTI and that
the correct driver made no difference. I also believe that most modem
manufactures now ship modems with  sensible default settings. Out of
the three recent modems I have purchased (Psion Gold PCMCIA card V34+,
Multitech 2834ZDX and the USR 33,600 Voice) that none of them have
been supplied with drivers.

>> I cannot see what difference running the standard 28,800 .inf would
>> make unless the initialisation string forced the modem to 28,800.
>
>There are slight performance benefits to be found when using the correct
>drivers for your modem but the windows 95 drivers will not 'force' the
>modem to a lesser speed. The Generic drivers are simply place holders and
>contain just enough information to get the modem going.

But then so do the defaults written into NVI  

>All the comments made about the USR modems in Issue 106 of Computer
>Shopper are true. The comments made in the original message that this is a
>reply to, however, contains misinformation. 

I disagree, I found the article misleading and believe my comments to
be correct, certainly as correct as the quote detailed above.

Paul