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U.S. Robotics 56K USR5699B

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U.S. Robotics 56K USR5699B

(23 customer reviews)

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U.S. Robotics has been building the world's best modems for over 25 years, and now the company is bringing you the latest in modem technology. V.92 lets you send e-mail and attachments faster, get online quicker, and even take incoming phone calls without losing your Internet connection. The U.S. Robotics 56K Faxmodem PCI for Windows combines superior performance and reliability with the advantages of V.92 technology.

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Product Details

Product Length:	11.0 inches
Product Width:	5.75 inches
Product Height:	5.0 inches
Product Weight:	1.0 pounds
Package Length:	9.8 inches
Package Width:	5.9 inches
Package Height:	2.7 inches
Package Weight:	0.55 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 23 reviews

Features

Connect to the Internet quickly and easily; installs in three simple steps
Send e-mail and attachments up to 50-percent faster
Send faxes from any Windows application and receive incoming faxes at any time; software-upgradeable
Take incoming calls while online with no additional phone lines
Built-in processor enables smoother streaming audio/video

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 2.0

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Waste of money Dec 03, 2007
Over time I have bought two of these modems. The first one lasted me a little while longer but this last one is a piece of royal junk. Like one other review I read, it will time out on me after being connected for only a short time. It will be trying to send requests out while not accepting data back in. I wont be buying one of these for long time.

Modem Almost Works Right Aug 05, 2007
A big thumbs down!!

Installed seamlessly and seemed to work OK untill I tried to send a fax to a real fax machine. It will not connect. Conclude that it is modem problem and not the fault of the remote fax machines since I have two other computers (an HP and a "brand X") both of which comunicate with the fax machines.

Have tried both the default Windows XP and the latest USR drivers with same results.

So far USR unhelpful.

If you want a reliable - trouble free unit - USR is best ! May 25, 2007
Stay with USR for modems, you can't go wrong there !

2 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Despite the bad reviews, this modem works great for me. Jul 22, 2006
How I came by this modem is a funny story...

A friend put my current system together for me and he included a "Modem Blaster" from Creative Labs (makers of SoundBlaster cards). I had a lot of problems with that modem (wildly varying connect speeds, transfer speeds that dropped over time, etc). It recently got fried by lightning.

I had picked up an old computer that someone had put out for trash pickup, but which I hadn't done anything with. I checked the back and saw phone jacks, so I opened the case and discovered this modem sitting in one of the slots. I pulled it out and installed it in my system. Then I pulled my old system out of the closet (with an ISA slot modem, which I can't use on this system), went online, went to USR's site, downloaded the driver and put it on a floppy disk. I then installed the driver on this system and attempted to dial my ISP.

It connected at 50666 on the first try, and almost always connects at that speed. Where my old modem would get a max speed of about 5.4K a second, this one consistently gets 6K a second and the speed doesn't seem to drop over time like the other one.

I can't explain why it works for me, but yet so many others have problems with it. I've never been a big fan of "winmodems", but I have to say that this one works much better than the one I was using.

For the record, I'm using Windows 98SE on a 1.8Ghz Pentium with 512MB of RAM.

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Pitiful Jun 18, 2006
My girlfriend got this for her computer and when it didn't work I was called in to rectify the problem. I've been performing onsite hardware/software support for over 10 years and, despite every trick, common sense step, heck I even read the directions to see if they would shed light, I was unable to get it to detect the modem. Playing around with windows, bios PNP settings, drivers, IRQs..etc I was unable to get the modem to even be picked up by the computer, I thought it was a bad modem until I read a lot of the reviews/tech questions on the net related to it and found the exact same problems. My advice is to try another modem. Note: USR offers Windows XP 'certified' drivers on their site but it's kind of hard to download them when you're trying to install a modem so you can connect to the internet in the first place.

USR needs to seriously examine their QA testing if this product is any example of it.