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- From: haijin@qni.com (HowieZowie)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster 28.8 problems
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 03:32:47 GMT
- Organization: Suba Communications
- Message-ID: <4dv0e3$rcb@suba01.suba.com>
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- David Huang <davehuang@value.net> wrote:
-
- >I have had an internal USR Sportster 28.8 for about a year now. It has
- >not been working to great for me. On some BBS's I call, it works okay.
- >But on other places such as my internet service provider, it almost never
- >connects. It oftens connects for a few seconds then drops. If it does
- >keep a good connection, it will slow down to a crawl and then drop. I
- >also have a Sportster 14.4 that works with no problems. Please e-mail me
- >with suggestions.
- I have a USR28.8 v34 (33.6 upgraded) and had a slew of problem until
- after talking with Tech support.....
- Try this: if you have yr modem on COM2/IRQ3 then remove yr modem from
- the board, then run MSD (MicroSoft Diagnostics), select COM list and
- see if COM2 is still listed as active. If it is, then disable it on yr
- IO/IDE board, re-install yr modem and try onlining again.
- Mine ran sometimes okay/most times poorly until I did this. Since then
- I've never been disconnected, and usually connect at 28.8.
- Another thing.....alot of times it is the condition of yr house phone
- lines/ area lines that is the culprit at high-speed! Also, the type of
- modems at yr ISP can contribute.
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-