CompuServe Thread

#GPFax init string

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#151247From: Kevin SangwellJun 6, 1994 4:53 PM
Gary, On what basis do you assume that Supra have no people left who know what an Amiga is? And why do you say that the Supra's are so bad? I've got a rack of Modems at the office which I look after and the only ones that I don't have problems with are (no not the Supra's we haven't got any, they're prohibited from connection to the UK network) Hayes. My Supra (which I haven't got at home if you're interested British Telecom <G>) has been far more stable than the majority of the ones at work! In fact, I've Cmailed Supra and they knew EXACTLY what settings to enter into NCOMM – yes NCOMM, the AMiga Comms S/W to solve a problem, which was my fault in the first place. This is not a flaming, just an opinion 😉 Kevin 68030/40 A1200… On AutoPilot from Surrey in the UK
#151257From: Gary Vander MeiJun 6, 1994 5:52 PM
Kevin, I am glad to know someone has had some luck with Supra Customer Service. Maybe after some of my calls and letters they changed things. The fact being is that when I have called them I have got responses from "what is an Amiga" to "I think someone here knows about those". This was about a year or so ago. There are a few reasons I have lost faith in the Supra modems. One being that I have had to upgrade the roms so often and had to pay for each revision. Secondly that it has problems connecting at 14.4 reliably when my el-cheapo Infotels connect with no problem what so ever. The kicker here is that I didn't know how bad it was unitl I got a Infotel from a friend to use breifly. Now I am sticking with the Infotel brand. (Cheap and reliable) About the Hayes thing, I don't see anything great about them either, especially thier price. // Gary Vander Mei on Auto-Pilot \X/
#151332From: Robert GriffithJun 7, 1994 1:33 AM
Gary, I have a Supra 14.4, and Supra has been alot of help. When I wanted to get my modem to do the silant answer mode they sent me a free Rom upgrade. When that did not fix the problem they gave me a password to download a upgrade to GPFAX from their BBS. I have nothing but great things to say about Supra Customer Service. "Long Live The Amiga" // Robert Griffith \X/
#151424From: Gary Vander MeiJun 7, 1994 3:01 PM
Robert, When I had a bad version of GPFax, Supra was of NO help to me. Numberous pleas for help were met with form letter respnoses. Only Dr. Perry offered to help me out. He sent me a replacement disk all the way from Australia. Supra had such a "don't bother me I'm busy" attitude with something so simple to resolve it just left a bad taste in my mouth…. As I have said previously, I hope they have changed things. // Gary Vander Mei on Auto-Pilot \X/
#151543From: Kevin SangwellJun 8, 1994 4:21 PM
Gary, I've always dealt with Supra through CIS as I'm in the UK and obviously I was lucky to hit the "someone" who knows about the Amiga 🙂 As far as your ROM's are concerned, well some people are unlucky, others are taken for a ride… I've never had a problem with my Supra FaxModem V32Bis connecting at 14.4 to any of the on-line services I use, although it is more prone to dropping the carrier on bad lines than any other I use. You're not wrong about the Hayes modems, but they are the bench mark in Modems so you usually compare things to them… As and when CIS is u/g to 28.8k, I'll u/g my modem, perhaps I'll look at the Infotels then (never heard of them before) but seeing as we've only had a 14.4 node in London since March THIS YEAR, I think it might be a while <g> Kevin 68030/40 A1200… On AutoPilot from Surrey in the UK