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- From: phabm@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Araya Pamonprawat - PHST)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help: need to debug a modem problem.
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 12:48:43 GMT
- Organization: Mahidol University, Thailand
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- : chokes (many CRC errors) when I download anything that
- : is not text (GIFs, .exe, .gz, .zip files etc.). I have the
-
- I think some cheaper modems get lots of these errors when up/downloading
- binary files, even though they handle ascii files okay. If you're game
- enough you could try setting your modem to use different types of error
- correction methods (hardware/RTS-CTS/Xon-Xoff) but I don't really
- understand these things so I can't advise you properly. There should be
- menu options to set these things somewhere on your comms software, and
- also in windows program-manager main ports.
-
- Setting the connection speed from 14,400 to something lower, say 4,800
- might help. You have to turn of hardware-flow-control to do this,
- otherwise your modem will automatically choose its highest possible
- speed. I think Xon-Xoff is hardware-flow-control.
-
- 1: first port is connected to something labeled "com2" on my board).
- Can I : connect an external modem on this port? I tried it but couldn't
- : figure out a way to tell my computer to use that external modem.
-
- Yes, definitely. Start your communications software and then look for the
- "setup" or "configure" menu option. When you find this option change from
- Com4 or whatever it is set to for your internal modem, and set it to
- Com2. (Or if you're using a DOS modem program, you could even unplug your
- mouse, plug your modem into Com1, and set your comms program to Com1.)
-