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- From: bebecker@newshost.li.net (Barry)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: old Sportster upgrade info->V.34+!!!
- Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 18:26:11 GMT
- Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network)
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- Jeff Watterson (gmjeff@wolfenet.com) wrote:
-
-
- : >: The sportster which shows a 33.6 at the ATI3 command is a piece of garbage,
- : >: why would you want it. It is not being supported by most of the comm
- : >: software and you ain't going to get 33.6 anyway. Be happy if you have a
- : >: functional sportster and don't go looking for trouble.
-
- : >I have no ax to grind. I bought an internal Sportster 28.8K with a "Plug
- : >N' Play" sticker on the box which turns out to be a 33.6! The ROM is
- : >dated 9/19/95. It has been working perfectly for about a month. After
- : >reading some of the complaints on this newsgroup, I tried some very long
- : >downloads - no problems. I've used it with Trumpet Winsock and a PPP
- : >connection to my Internet provider - no problems.
-
- : >I HAVE had some FAX problems, but after much experimenting, I'm convinced
- : >that it's the fault of the QuickLink II software that was bundled with
- : >the modem.
-
- : >My only complaint with USR is that it takes them "forever" to respond to
- : >emails. One took 8 days for a response. I sent them another (before I
- : >realized the FAX problem was with the software) about 10 days ago. Still
- : >haven't received a response!
-
- : >But the modem keeps humming right along.
-
- : >--
- : >Barry
- : ><bebecker@li.net>
- : >Nothing is as it seems.
- : Barry,
- : What settings did you use with your modem, what operating system do
- : you use? I have the same modem ,same version dates and I use win95'.
- : I have all sorts of trouble with my modem as far as getting connected,
- : once I am connected to it works great. I upgraded from a USR 14.4
- : V.42bis that worked flawlessly using the same setup I have now, but
- : this 28.8 V.34+ is bogus.
- : I would really like to know what you did to get the performance that
- : your so happy with , and maybe I could apply it to my own.
- : really don't want do downgrade to 14.4 again,but maybe another brand
- : 28.8
- : is in the future.
- : ~Jeff Watterson
-
- Wellllll, maybe I need to qualify what I said before. If you're
- following this newsgroup, you may have seen some postings from me
- regarding disconnect problems.
-
- The modem _has_ been working flawlessly with my connection to my ISP,
- both through a shell account and PPP using Trumpet Winsock (v.2.1f). An
- init string of AT&F1 seems to be fine for the shell account.
-
- In Trumpet Winsock, I'm not sure where the init string came from - I
- might have carried it over from an older version and an older modem. The
- only thing I'm sure I added myself is the L0 to lower the speaker
- volume. FWIW, here it is: AT &K3 X6 &B1 &H1 &R2 S0=0 L0. Since the
- modem worked on the first try, I didn't even look at the init string.
- I'm using Windows 3.11, not Windows 95. I disabled the system com2 port
- and installed the modem as com2, IRQ3.
-
- I am, however, having disconnect problems with my account at work via PC
- Anywhere. Tomorrow, I will find out what kind of modem(s) they have at
- their end. That may help. Meanwhile, I've been experimenting with
- S-register tweaking in the init string with PC Anywhere.
-
- Last week it looked like adding S15=128 did the trick (that disables V.42
- operation). I connected with work at a high speed (maybe 28800 or 26400
- or even 24000, I don't remember) and I stayed connected for about a half
- hour or so, experimenting with uploads and downloads in the process.
- Everything seemed solid. Well, it didn't last. I started suffering
- random disconnects again. Presently (last try), I disabled the 3429 rate
- and 3200 symbol rate (S33=48), which seems to limit the connect speed to
- 24000 (I think). I had tried S33=32, but that didn't fix the problem.
- The latest tweak seems to be working, but there were some delays in
- keyboard response from time to time of several seconds or more. An ATI6
- after the last session showed about 6 "Link Timeouts," but everything
- else looked perfect.
-
- I hope I haven't put you to sleep. Maybe some of the same tweaks would
- help your situation.
-
- Good luck,
- --
- Barry
- <bebecker@li.net>
- Nothing is as it seems.
-