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- From: bessie@tinkertoy.com (Timothy H. Bessie)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Penril Alliance V.34bis Questions
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:20:32 -0800
- Organization: scruz-net
- Message-ID: <bessie-2301960020320001@tinkertoy.com>
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- Hi there! I saw your article in comp.dcom.modems about the
- Penril you bought, and I've been experiencing similar difficulties
- with mine. I'm not sure if I've written to before (I've written to
- a couple of people who've bought Penrils, but I didn't keep track of
- my mailings, sadly).
-
- In article <3101c5f5.833187@uchinews.uchicago.edu>, dkakanov@midway.uchicago.edu (Dana Akanova) wrote:
-
- >Well, I tried to give the Penril another chance. I was actually able
- >to get the modem to work as a Archtek Megaplus Fax 288 under Win95.
- >However, I at first thought that the Penril would hold on to the line
- >better than my old Courier DS V.34. I get a few more (2/day) random
- >disconnects than I did with the Courier (2/week).
-
- I've been calling local ISP's and BBS's with my little Global Village
- 14.4 modem, and I've never once gotten a disconnect. Now with this
- new Penril (I've attached it to the serial port for my Mac), I'm often
- getting disconnects, or even inabilities to connect at all! What
- generally happens is, if I connect at 28.8, it'll disconnect eventually.
- Otherwise, it connects at 26.4 and stays there. It didn't succceed at
- all trying to talk to a local 9600 BBS. I was really suprized, for
- the same reason you were (all their hype about super-line-holding
- abilities). I called their Tech Support, and a rather blase' fellow
- said "It could be anything. You shouldn't have to use anything but
- factory defaults. It's probably the other modem or a bad line." Not
- helpful, really.
-
- >I talked to Penril Tech Support and they said that they will not be
- >supporting Win95 -- i.e. no .inf file for Win95 to identify the modem.
- >The init string that I am currently using under Win95 is
- >ATW1M0L2S11=55\Q1. Anyone else got a better init that might prevent
- >these disconnects? After all, Penril advertises this modem as the
- >master of noise control.
-
- Like I said, the guy said I didn't need an init string. Only \Q1 has
- any kind of real effect, according to the manual (the rest are aesthetic).
-
- >Also, the manual indicates that this modem supports asymmetric rates.
- >And I do have the modem configured as such. However, when I connect
- >to several BBS's with different types of modems (Couriers, SupraFax
- >V.34, Hayes Optima V.34, Sportsters), I ALWAYS get the same rate for
- >the send and receive speeds. I know that these other modems support
- >asymmetric rates because I could see them when I used my courier and
- >did an ati6. So what's the deal?
-
- If you get any useful information, PLEASE forward it on to me.
- I'd love to know why these things aren't living up to the amazing
- place in the pantheon of modems they've advertized themselves in.
- The other modem I was considering was a Microcom DeskPort... it's what
- my ISP uses. They're not V.34bis (just V.34), but they sounded good.
- I'm sure they'd be spectacular connecting with their brethren at my
- ISP's end.
-
- Yours Sincerely,
-
- Tim Bessie (bessie@tinkertoy.com)
-
-
- P.S. My newsreader is new to me -- I'm assuming I'm sending this
- via email, but it may get posted to comp.dcom.modems. Sorry if it does
- (live and learn *sigh*).
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Tim Bessie
- bessie@tinkertoy.com
-