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- From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: "Checksum error packets"???
- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:06:59 EST
- Message-ID: <960101.130659.5Z2.rnr.w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- References: <4bsi6o$olq@bird3.i-link.net>
- Organization: Izot's Swamp
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- strange@i-link.net writes:
-
- > I keep getting these error messages that say somthing about "Checksum
- > Error Packets" and "Invalid FCS/Checksum error." The modem goes
- > really slow and nothing works but email when this happens
- > Anybody have any ideas? Is this happening to any one else?
-
- It sounds like data loss due to UART receive buffer overruns. John Navas has
- an excellent list of suggestions for preventing overruns, especially under
- Windows (which is inherently unfriendly to timing-sensitive things such as
- serial communications).
-
- --
- Geoffrey Welsh, Senior Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
- geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
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