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From: Glen W Brooksby <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: 14.4 w/386SX-20?
Date: 22 Jan 1996 20:06:25 GMT
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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I've recently purchased a low-budget 14.4 modem to replace the
old 2400 baud modem I'd been using.  (Turns out that I got one
of those RPI modems where the V.42 runs on the processor... but
that's another story).  The machine I've got it connected to is
a 386SX @20MHz.  The UART is an 8250 and is not replaceable (it's
built into the chipset on the motherboard).  I also have no room
for expansion boards, as the only two I have are filled with a
display card and sound card, so a high speed serial port card is
out of the question.  I'm attempting (and sometimes succeeding)
in running Netscape using Trumpet Winsock (with the RPI disabled
to minimize the processor load), but I'm still getting quite a few
comm over-runs.  Sometimes it appears that the connection just
gets completely hung up.  Sometimes data will appear (judging from
the SD and RD lights) to pour in for a few seconds and then just
stop and never finish.

Is there anything that I might try to optimize this pitiful hardware
configuration? Any suggested Trumpet settings (MSS? RWIN? MTU?)
that might help?  Any Windows settings that might help?
The modem is a "Phoebe" 14.4 fax/modem. Perhaps there's some modem
setup that would help?

I'd sure appreciate any help available out there.

Thanks,

G. Brooksby
[e-mail]