Mac aRa Modem Magic™ 5.0
Company: macntosh
Price: $55.00
CD version- add $5 for S&H
http://www.macntosh.com

It has not been a good year at all for me, modem connection-wise. From January 1st 2001 until approximately the 15th of March, I suffered from the worst connections I have ever experienced. I went from a “normal” connection speed of 38,000 bps to a whooping 9,600-24,000bps with the worst static, disconnects and other problems. Of course, the great and powerful telephone company, despite numerous calls, complaints and pleas, switched pairs, etc., continued to tell me that nothing was wrong, I had never connected at the speeds I had been (for more then 2 years!) and that they only ensured “voice quality transmissions, not data quality transmissions.” Thankfully, through the good graces of my next door neighbor (he couldn’t even connect online at all during the same time period) who had friends in the telephone company, a “perfectly good” piece of equipment was replaced at the slick and all problems suddenly disappeared.

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