home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: in2.uu.net!insync!usenet
- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Kickin' Setting for USR Courier
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 14:54:20 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <3100fe87.6774832@news.insync.net>
- References: <390_9601140747@juge.com> <4dascj$tsn@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <4de6r6$1j6@brickbat.mindspring.com> <sywx6ps56n.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com> <4dovmi$422@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- Reply-To: bubba@insync.net
- NNTP-Posting-Host: line-223.insync.net
- X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141
-
- davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) wrote:
-
- >In article <sywx6ps56n.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com>,
- >Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com> wrote:
- >
- >| Some of us do not like &F1's behavior (in particular, I believe that &F1 should
- >| have set the S register so that the modem NEVER connects to a non-error
- >| correcting modem -- the current behavior is to try for an error correction and
- >| fallback if it can't get it).
- >
- >You have a valid point, but it depends on what the user is doing. If
- >you don't do the fallback, the operation is "if you aren't going to
- >do EC I don't want to talk to you." For people who have to connect
- >to support BBSs which have crap modems, or people who operate
- >systems which accept calls from the public (I still get calls at
- >300) this is not reasonable policy.
- >
- >I think USR got this one right, the default is "do the best you can."
-
- You have a valid point Bill. I'm happy with USR's defaults. The current
- default settings make a hellouva lot more sense than their defaults of
- 2-3 years ago.
-
- Still with whatever default values there are, there will always be the
- need to make site-specific/application-specific settings. On my own
- central site host system (minimum connect speed 9600) we have proven
- to our own satisfaction that non-EC connections at speeds >9600 simply
- are not survivable, ergo our decision to lock the host in mandatory EC
- configuration.
-
- The callers having difficulty connecting then stand out like a sore
- thumb and end up calling our tech support line. We find that in the
- majority of these cases, some obscure software program has not only
- disabled the customer's EC settings, but has *WRITTEN* the changes to
- NVRAM. Judas Priest!
-
- Our customers receive a script file through which they connect with
- us. When something like the above scenario occurs, it's a simple matter
- to walk the customer through a script edit session and have them ENABLE
- their EC (assuming they can tell us what make/model of modem they have).
- However, unlike one of our competitors, we do not WRITE the settings to
- NVRAM.
-
- Prior to LOCKING our host modems in forced EC mode, we often received
- complaints about onscreen jibberish. The FIX was to lock the host in
- EC, then address, one-by-one, those few customers whose modems were
- merely misconfigured. This approach worked and the customers are now
- all happy with their connectivity to our system.
-
-
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Geez....After ISDN, 28800 makes you want to get out and push!! |
- |Please do not send unsolicited commercial e_mail to this address.|
- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-