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I have a Visor Deluxe that I purchased about a year ago (May 2000). I just received my Minstrel S from Go.America. I'm aware that most of the Minstrel S providers are now saying that the modems are "optimized" for Visor Platinums and higher. So far, however, my Minstrel S seems to be getting pretty good throughput.

My question is, how exactly can I tell if my Deluxe is causing "non-optimal" performance? Signal strength looks good. Is there a "noise" parameter I can look at? Did I get lucky?

Thanks!
Marcel

According to other VC members if you look on the back of your VDX there's a black circuit board directly above your batteries. This is assuming you do not have a graphite VDX and the back is the clear plastic. The optimized units do not have that board right under the plastic like the non-optimized ones do.

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If there's anything wrong with your current Visor (scratched screen, chipped case, etc.), you may want to go for an optimized one. First of all, you'll have it in a matter of days; secondly, you'll have a unit in like new condition (at least mine was); lastly, you'll be sure that your unit is optimized.

Just my .02

Ron

I'd say that if you are satisified with the proformence, then I wouldn't worry about it, it couldn't hurt anything, and if you are planing to upgrade to a new visor in the next cupple of years, then I seartanly wouldn't worry about it.

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