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- From: millevil@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Milleville)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Phone Line Quality Check
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:36:54 GMT
- Organization: University at Buffalo
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- DON HORNE (doho@mci.newscorp.com) wrote:
- : John Fakiris <jfakiris@harris.com> wrote:
- : >Is there a piece of software (of hardware) to check the phone line
- : >quality real time? I would like to improve my connection for 28.8K modem.
- : >How does one know if the phone line signal to noise ratio is OK (at least
- : >on my side)? My USR 28.8K shows the SNR levels with ATI11, but it is not
- : >practical to use it if you are checking the lines trying to determine
- : >whether you have a good connection or of you have improved the line?
- : >
- : >John Fakiris
- : >jfakiris@harris.com
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- : John,
- : I have been experimenting with the commands AT%Q and AT%L and have found
- : that a local connection on a known good line will return a value of 000
- : to 001 when connected to a 2400 bps modem. You must first make connection
- : with another modem and then return to the command state by issuing the
- : escape charactors (+++). When in the command state, enter the command
- : (AT%Q), and you should get a three number result code. My problem is I
- : cannot find what the code values mean as to the quality of the line. I
- : have seen from 000 to 027 on lines that seem to operate OK, at least at
-
- At 015, that means you have a problem with line noise and you should
- call the telco. I have seen numbers as high as 60, and still gotten a
- 28.8 connect between a Zoom v.34 and a Courier v.34+. Normally, I get
- 5 or 6, depending on where and when i call.
-
- : 2400bps. The AT%L command will return the line loss of the connection in
- : db and have been typically 25 to 30 db on circuits I have tesed, but I am
- : also not sure how to interpret these result codes either. Most phone
- : lines will have 15 db of loss in them. Hope this gives you something to
- : look at.
-
- : Don Horne
- : doho@mci.newscorp.com
-
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- Andy Milleville
- millevil@eng.buffalo.edu
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