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From: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Warning! USRobuttocks Courier 2400 considered harmful!
Message-ID: <603@ecn-pc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 16:18:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.603
Posted: Thu Jul 31 16:18:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 07:20:35 EDT
References: <2558@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3495@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
Lines: 42

In article <3495@amdahl.UUCP> sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) writes:
>In article <2558@brl-smoke.ARPA> Michael.Chepponis@C.CS.CMU.EDU
>(Mike Chepponis) writes:
>> [missing stuff]
>> * * * * *  D O   N O T   B U Y   USRobuttocks   P R O D U C T S !!!  * * * *
>> [missing stuff]
>
>I have used a Courier 2400 for about nine months without any problems. The
>price was right, it seems well designed, and the manual is good.
> [...]
>I do not claim that the Courier 2400 will meet all needs, but it is not a
>piece of junk as Mike Chepponis implied.
>-- Stephen J. Langdon
>

We here at Purdue's Engineering Computer Network have used about 30 or 40
USR Couriers for sometime now.  They were an upgrade from the old Hayes
1200s, and we generally have no problems with them.  In our area, GTE is
our local telephone service (after running through all the schools equipment),
and the long distance links are extremely noisy.  We don't ever seem to
experience the problems as described here.  In fact, all of our UUCP and
external network traffic runs through them.

At home I own a USR Password (1200/300 Auto-answer, Hayes commands), and
except for the speaker frizzing out, the modem works fine  --  sometimes I
can get a connection through when other people can't.   (who uses that ole
speaker anyway...)

Of all the modems that I have tried, I have better performance luck with
USR than Hayes, and both of those exceedingly better than any other.  I
just don't see why your egg was bad....

					- bob

Gee?  NO!....GTE, the twilight phone.  We've got you by the bells!!

-- 
Continuing Engineering Education Telecommunications
Purdue University 		...!ihnp4!pur-ee!pc-ecn!sandersr

Let's make like a BSD process, and go FORK-OFF !!	-- bob
(and "make" a few children while we're at it ...)