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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Kickin' Setting for USR Courier
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 20:38:16 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4dovfo$386@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <390_9601140747@juge.com> <4dascj$tsn@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <4de6r6$1j6@brickbat.mindspring.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com
- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <4de6r6$1j6@brickbat.mindspring.com>,
- Floyd Drennon <fdrennon@mont.mindspring.com> 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&W then use ATZ. Kicks all the arse you could want.
- |
- | I see many people recommend this, but I don't understand why. Using &F1 is
- | faster than ATZ and accomplishes the same results. Why not continue to use
- | &F1?
-
- If you only do dial out, or only use one init string this is fine.
- But if you need to disable some symbol rate on one call, or accept
- incoming calls, you want to set your modem on drop DTR (s13.0=1 from
- memory) and have it go back to a sane setting.
-
- There's no real benefit if you use one init string. Just *don't* put
- &W in the init string. NVRAM typically has a limited number of times
- you can rewrite it, and while this is fine if you only do it when
- things change, if you do it on every outgoing call you could get to
- the edge of the bell shape failure curve. I've seen numbers quoted
- from 10k-50k, so this isn't a problem unless you make a lot of
- calls. I have some systems which make 100+ calls/day, and I found
- this the hard way.
- --
- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Davidsen's first rule of system administration:
- He learns to swim fastest who is thrown in the deepest water.
-