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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Supra Modems
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 20:05:34 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Matthew Roccella (roccella@bc.cybernex.net) wrote:
- : I was interested in upgrading my modem from 14.4 to 28.8 and I was
- : interested in getting a Supra modem. The one with the 2 character
- : display interests me. If anyone out there has one, please let me know
- : what you feel about it. Also, how does it display information with
- : only 2 characters? Is it easy to read?
- Subject: Re: Supra Modems
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- Matthew Roccella (roccella@bc.cybernex.net) wrote:
- : Hello:
- :
- : I was interested in upgrading my modem from 14.4 to 28.8 and I was
- : interested in getting a Supra modem. The one with the 2 character
- : display interests me. If anyone out there has one, please let me know
- : what you feel about it. Also, how does it display information with
- : only 2 characters? Is it easy to read?
-
- The Supra display sequences through the various information points. The
- main ones to consider are the R34 and T34, followed by a representation
- of the speed. The speeds are easy enough to understand even though they
- are 2 or 3 digit (28800 shows as 28 and 21600 shows as 216, for example).
- As for how I feel about the modem, I think it is ok but not something to
- brag about. It has what appears to be a problem with not inhibiting the
- initiation of a retrain while negotiating error correction. Supra is
- currently in denial about this, claiming it doesn't happen, but the
- factory default is to inhibit retrain requests (%E0). That means it is
- dependent on the remote modem to monitor line conditions and request
- retrains. If you set the modem to monitor line conditions and request
- retrains (%E1), you then run the risk of it requesting a retrain when it
- shouldn't.
-
- Maybe I've just been spoiled by my USR Couriers but I expect a modem to
- function properly and not have a factory default which masks a problem.
- Since I understand Hayes had a similar problem and suggested the same
- "fix" (inhibit retrain requests), maybe it's a common problem with the
- Rockwell chipset.
-
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- "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
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