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- From: profgmby@cybercomm.net (Sir Spamalot)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
- Subject: Re: Motorola Power 28.8 Questions!!
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 16:20:07 GMT
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- jjkane@pluto.njcc.com (Adam Kane) wrote:
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- > I just bought a Motorola Power 28.8 and it came with rev 2. I
- >downloaded rev 4, but am having some problems with upgrading my modem.
- >When I try to do so from MS-DOS mode from within Windows95, it does
- >not recognize the modem. (it says it can't find it)
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- > When I boot up my hard drive with an old DOS (pre-Win95) bootdisk and
- >try to run the UPDATE program, it recognizes the modem (I think), but
- >when it gets to the "Attempting soft-downloading . . " (maybe it's
- >"Attempting <something else here> . . ."), it kicks me out to DOS. It
- >looked like it went through a few things, but it took a total of about
- >1-2 minutes. And when I checked out the REV in my comm program, it
- >said 2!!! This cannot be correct since it should take 5-10 minutes to
- >transfer the 1 meg file to the modem, right?
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- I had problems updating too - use the "xmodem" procedure as described
- in the "readme's". That works. I did it through ProComm.
-
- > Oh -- another question. When I called into my Internet Service
- >Provider with my old modem, Win95 only took about 20-30 seconds to
- >connect and give me the connect speed (which was usually 14.4), but
- >with my new Motorola Power 28.8, it takes about 50-60 seconds before
- >it connects and gives me a connect speed. What can I do so that the
- >waiting time is much less. One minute waiting is no fun.. :(
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- I don't know what your connecting with; if you're using Trumpet, stay
- in Trumpet window and log in manually. Watch what happens; maybe
- you'll get some clues.
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- This is my theory, which is mine.
- *** Ms. Anne Elk ***
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