Goodbye 3Com. It was great while it lasted.

[d33pt]

i still see USR modems for sale at fry's. What's the deal? New old stock?

 

[daveymark]

they had a funky building near woodfield mall

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
heh i once had a usr modem, nice hardware modem🙂

good old hardware vs software modem debate.

I still remember USR made a "gaming modem" when broadband was starting to get popular. lol, that thing was 100 bucks.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
heh i once had a usr modem, nice hardware modem🙂

good old hardware vs software modem debate.

I still remember USR made a "gaming modem" when broadband was starting to get popular. lol, that thing was 100 bucks.

It has its purpose. All of their other modems at the time were Winmodems, the gaming modem was a tried & true hardware modem.

 

[Nerva]

just because it's bought by a chinese company, doesnt mean the quality will be worse. besides, Bain will be there to make sure of that.

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: 3cho
just because it's bought by a chinese company, doesnt mean the quality will be worse. besides, Bain will be there to make sure of that.

No wai! God forbids you say good thing about Chinese company in atot!

 

[Czar]

I have salvaged every 100mbps 3com nic I have come across, they just simply work and drivers are built into every os

not that stupid broadcom crap which isnt in every os and requires a huge download for the drivers

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: UncleWai

Originally posted by: 3cho
just because it's bought by a chinese company, doesnt mean the quality will be worse. besides, Bain will be there to make sure of that.

No wai! God forbids you say good thing about Chinese company in atot!

Hey, if Lenovo made Thinkpads of the same quality and support as IBM I would say nice things about them.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
heh i once had a usr modem, nice hardware modem🙂

good old hardware vs software modem debate.

I still remember USR made a "gaming modem" when broadband was starting to get popular. lol, that thing was 100 bucks.

It has its purpose. All of their other modems at the time were Winmodems, the gaming modem was a tried & true hardware modem.

I had a USR modem. It killed my internal PCI modem in terms of speed. I mean seriously. It was a matter of 3.8 KB/sec vs 4.1 KB/sec on AOL. That made a huge difference

 

[darkamulets]

Originally posted by: 3cho
just because it's bought by a chinese company, doesnt mean the quality will be worse. besides, Bain will be there to make sure of that.

LOL Huawei, when they came into the fray in my region it was basically a local guy and 3-5 chinesse engineers and they would basically hand out equipment to buy over customers where we were placing bids. Nortel & motorola along with nokia & seimens have been losing a lot of business to these kinda shitty business practices.

Cause sadly publicly traded companies can't do those kind of things.