Right, and it has nothing to do with connection quality.
> Here, I have an idea. Go sit youself down in
> front of a 95 or 3.1x machine and try to connect, oh to the internet, if I
> lost you...Now what does it say? Wow, 115K if you have a USR or just about
> any decent modem with 33.6.
Uh, it'll say whatever you TOLD it to say when you configured the modem...
whether its a $60 no-name Rockwell V.FC or a $300 Courier V.Everything.
It gives no representation whatsoever about connection quality.
ATI6 will give you a lot of nice info, however.
> All I said in all of this is I like the modems I
> have, with proper care, they are reliable. Is this a crime? What modems do
> you use? Do you like 'em. Well don't ever recommend them, due to the fact
> that you may poked at by someone like yourself...
I use USR Couriers for POTS and Ascend MAX4004's with DM12 cards for
PRI. I had a couple of hundred Sportsters (28.8's and 33.6's) at my
previous job. The Sportsters have poor initial connection rates compared to
cheap Rockwell modems, the fall back but never fall forward, and they puke when
they get hot...
If you had said "I like my Sportsters but I haven't done any testing to
see how well they really work", I wouldn't be giving you a hard time.
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