Derek, I think you just made my point! For every happy user you can find one almost equally unhappy. As another data point I helped someone out with their problem about a year ago. They had purchased a shiny new HP Pavilion desktop system. They tried and failed to reliably connect to 3 different ISPs with the built-in Rockwell/Conexant winmodem. They spent hours on the phone with the ISPs and HP. Finally the guy's brother asked me to call him. I discussed it with him for a few minutes and suggested he run down to his local Circuit City/Best Buy/Staples and pick up a new external modem (~$50). Voila! End of problem. I explained to him that the built-in v.90 modems although standard conformant did not necessarily interoperate with many ISP's modem arrays. I had been through this previously with other users and always fixed the problem by adding or replacing the modem. But this guy can't say anything nice about HP. It's only their problem in a backhanded way. Worse, at some point they shipped him an entirely new box which of course worked no better than the first one. And the icing on the cake? AFAIK he kept the second box because he was so PO'd at HP! Talk about a losing proposition...
-Alex P.S. You may recall the giant p'ing contest between the K56-Flex advocates and the X-2 advocates. They compromised on the v.90 standard but deliberately chose to forgo interoperability testing. The rest, as they say, is history. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:16:50PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: > For example, I don't like buying Dells because a laptop I had a year ago > was a piece of junk, whereas my IBM laptop still runs like a champ > two year later. When I wanted a new laptop, I chose another IBM. Funny, my experience was exactly the opposite... In fact, the CD-ROM drive plate on my Thinkpad fell off after about 6 months of normal use... - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JauwHEnASN++rQIRAkddAJ9YEdQU6k4OlWhb2XRV3OP7W1gWGACbBWVF pHv4QIYWVjNOfAeIcv/vS7Y= =sbql -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
