> I run a small ISP in northern california and we are getting ready to =
> purchase more modems...currently we have had nothing but problems with =
> our USR sportster piece-o-junk modems...I am thinking of USR Couriers, =
> but they are a bity expensive....has anyone had any good luck with other =
> modems? Maybe zoom, or microcomm? I would appriciate knowing what some =
> of you other ISP's out there use for your modems....
Sportsters are piece-o-junk modems. We spent $1000 on three new ones, and
they are the worst I have ever seen. We use Zoom 28.8 externals. They're
great, only you have to set the PM to 9600 and let the modem kick that up.
>From a rural area, I am able to connect to them at 24kbps. They haven't
been any trouble since they were put in, and the only install problem I had
was that I had tried to increase the starting speed, and they just wouldn't
do that. To make them work perfectly, I use this string:
ate1v1q&q5s0=1l2&w
Jonathan Brown
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