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- From: eric@eola.ao.net (Butt-head)
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- Subject: Re: I've Had It With Supra 28.8. It's a piece of shit.
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- Date: 5 Jan 1996 05:37:12 GMT
- Organization: Access Orlando
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- Benjamin Hinson (jammin@best.com) wrote:
- : *** I got your solution, I think? ***
- :
- : I have had the same problem with my Supra V.34 288 modem locking up
- : while transfering data in a PPP connection. The solution that was
- : given to me is to use the init string AT&F1%C1. The %C1 disables
- : data compression V.42bis and uses only MNP5 data compression. I don't
- : know why this has to be done, but, IT WORKS. I asked Supra Technical
- : Support why, and they didn't (or wouldn't) explain why.
-
- The %C1 part is bull. %C1 is the command to ENABLE data compression, %C0
- DISABLES it. Having compression enabled is the default anyway from &F1,
- so the %C1 does NOTHING. If it is actually using MNP5 data compression
- instead of LAP-M (v.42) with BLTZ (v.42bis) compression, there is most likely a
- problem with the modems you are calling. You can tell if this is the
- case because the supra will display "M5" in the green lights for MNP5 and
- "LP" and "DC" if you have LAP-M with data compression. It is more
- likely that you were previously using their recommended settings for
- PC's, the difference being that DTR hangup and DCD carrier detection
- lines are enabled. If you are running a lot of TCP applications with
- little memory, the computer will sometimes drop DTR doing virtual memory
- swapping long enough that the modem hangs up on the PC settings, even if
- your PC normally works right with DTR hangup in DOS. (&F1 is the recommended
- mac settings)
-
- Also, your 26.4/24K connects are not bad - its almost definately your
- phone lines. Most people do not get 28.8 connections because the phone
- line quality is bad. You may be able to improve the speed a little by
- doing the following 2 things:
-
- 1. If you have your voice and data lines as two separate lines, but
- coming out of one phone jack (4-wire) in your house, there is probably a
- lot of crosstalk. Get one of the faceplates with two separate phone
- jacks from radio shack or somewhere for about $5 to replace the one on
- the wall, and disconnect the wires for your data line from the jack
- behind the outlets you aren't using.
-
- 2. This one may be more difficult: replacing the wiring in your house
- with twisted pair can sometimes provide about 2400 additional bandwidth.
-