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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Need help with USR Init String
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:49:24 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4eov64$1scs@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <4dv6ub$lcq@ccnet2.ccnet.com> <eric-2601960054250001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: darkstar.prodigy.com
- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <eric-2601960054250001@sobt.accessorl.net>,
- Eric Shaw <eric@accessorl.net> wrote:
-
- | The most common reason for getting dropped when netsurfing seems to be
- | hardware DTR hangup - if your computer is busy swapping, it can't always
- | keep the DTR line to the modem raised, so try the cardinal with this
- | feature off (AT&D0) and you might stop getting dropped.
-
- Say what? Once the DTR is set active it requires a positive action,
- called hangup, to drop it. That's how the computer tells the modem
- to go away, and it has nothing to do with load.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Too many improbable things have happened to me, both good and bad.
- I'm living on the edge of the bell shaped curve.
-