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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR 33.6 / Crappy Tech Support
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 12:23:27 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4edn2f$191i@seminole.gate.net>
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- John Chapman (john@infomatch.com) wrote:
- : Recently we received 5 of the new 33.6 externals, and
- : placed them in use. These modems are constantly freezing on us
- : and losing their connections to the COM port. The DTR light
- : goes out on these modems, and it is not possible
- : to use a terminal to connect to them until they are reset.
- : These modems are in use on a Unix system connected to
- : RisComm/Digiboard serial boards.
- :
- : The strange thing is is that we have lots of the older 28.8
- : Sportsters, and we never have any problems. None of the
- : new 33.6 modems work reliably. An ati4 of the modems looks like:
- :
- : C-Kermit>connect
- : Connecting to /dev/ttya6, speed 38400.
- : The escape character is Ctrl-\ (ASCII 28, FS)
- : Type the escape character followed by C to get back,
- : or followed by ? to see other options.
- : ati4
- : USRobotics Sportster 33600 Fax Settings...
- :
-
- Wouldn't it have been much better to supply us with the COURIER settings
- rather than the Sportster????
-
- Your problem sounds like the modems are "falling asleep". This was an old
- problem that affected lots of modems. Some software fixes were provided
- by some programs which simply sent an initialization code to the modem
- after each 5 minutes of inactivity. However, I didn't think that was
- still needed on the Couriers.
-
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- "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
- [Dwight D. Eisenhower]
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