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- From: profgmby@raven.cybercom.com (Sir Spamalot)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Kickin' Setting for USR Courier
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:00:23 GMT
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- bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield) wrote:
-
- >mag@zeta.org.au (Chris McCallum) wrote:
- >> I am about to buy a USR Courier V.Everything and was wondering if someone
- >>could e-mail me some kickin' arse init string settings.
- >AT&F1 factory defaults will suffice for 99.999% of all PC-based
- >(DOS/WINDOWS) applications.
- >You will likely encounter some absurd recommendation for
- >a 42-character init string being bantered around for the past
- >several years in the various USR user group nets. However, 80% of that
- >42-character string is FACTORY DEFAULT VALUES anyway and what isn't will
- >not help your file transfer speeds except in the one special instance
- >where you are transferring precompressed data like .ZIP files, and only
- >then between dissimilar modems. Between two USR V.Everythings, the
- >famous "Jeff Marchi 42-character init string" will sometimes actually
- >impede throughput and will never help it. Two or more years ago that
- >long init string had some merit. Today, with the new V.Everythings it
- >is superfluous.
-
- >What you might want to do is speed up your autodialer with the S11
- >register, setting it to 50 instead of the default value of 70, but that
- >would be the lone recommendation aside from &F1 defaults.
-
- >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
- >|Geez....After ISDN, 28800 makes you want to get out and push!! |
- >|Please do not send unsolicited commercial e_mail to this address.|
- >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-
- Good advice!! An even more idiot proof setup is to set the factory
- defaults, adding any changes that you might like (e.g., speaker
- control, etc.) as a Profile and initialize the modem from your dial
- script using only "ATZ1, ATZ2", or wherever you put it - to
- automatically call up that profile That makes it pretty idiot
- proof............EXCEPT
-
- If you also run in DOS with Procomm or another terminal emulation
- program. In that case, watch the Procomm init string - make them the
- same, or be sure that the profiles called are different.
-
- Happy Modeming!!!!
-
- --
- This is my theory, which is mine.
- *** Ms. Anne Elk ***
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