🚀 go-pugleaf

>I am the proud possessor of a first-release USR WinModem, not their best
>implementation of DSP PCK technology. It was a "mere" 28.8 when shipped. 
>Running 33.6 drivers downloaded in November I'm seeing consistant 31.2
>connects and 2.7k/s downloads, aided by living less than a mile
>Northwest of the 25th St CO. I haven't bothered buying X2 drivers
>because I've been waiting for the v90 dust to settle, but the
>competition's going to have to do the new spec a whole lot better than
>3Com (nee USR) for it to make sense to buy new hardware. There are a
>whole lot of folks out there with  similarly upgradeable hardware like
>mine, so the only real question will be when will the right software be
>available?

Quite honestly, the winmodem may never work properly.  The whole
concept behind the thing is flawed, and it was a serious black eye to
USR for producing such a modem.  Having the computer's CPU do the
data compression and error correction to save $10 in production costs
was just plain ignorant.

My advice:  When you upgrade, come in and buy one of our used USR
Courier modems when we have them for sale again.  Probably after
our March promotion.  I've been hunting around a lot of our analog
modems in Milwaukee lately, and should have around 450 of them for
sale come April.

The modems will come with X2 installed, at a minimum, and maybe
v.90 code if that software is available when we start the sale.

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