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- From: you@somehost.somedomain (A.Tucsni)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Connecting two modems directly
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 10:27:38 GMT
- Organization: Technische Natuurkunde
- Message-ID: <4fv1qq$6d1@cyber.tn.tudelft.nl>
- References: <cuzensDMDyL0.7zt@netcom.com>
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- In article <cuzensDMDyL0.7zt@netcom.com>, cuzens@netcom.com (Jarrod Cuzens) says:
- >
- >To whomever it may concern:
- > My roommate and I have recently purchased a 50' RS-232 telephone
- >cable and connected to the line jacks of each of our modems. We are doing
- >to try to play a game together, but have been unsuccessful. First of all
- >is it possible to use the rs-232 as a substitute for the Direct Link play
- >which would require us to purchase null modem cable which is much more
- >expensive and bulky. What we are trying to do is to use our modems to
- >play the game without a phone line. I have tried to get the modem play to
- >work by saying atx3dt and answering with ata but the game won't allow us
- >to pick up using ata, only ats0=1 which requires a ring. I also tried
- >going through a comm program called terminat in which I think I was
- >successful in disabling all of the compression and error handling (which
- >is required by the game) and then connected and used the direct link play
- >however this didn't work because the modem sends gibberish and only one
- >modem insists on sending while the other does not receive and no matter
- >what I do can I get the other to send while the latter recieves. Anyway,
- >I was simply asking for help as to if what we are doing is possible and
- >if we could simulate either a modem ring (or something else which would
- >produce the correct response) without the phone line, or if we could
- >successfully get the modems to just act as a kind UART(I guess) by maybe
- >making them dumb terminals with cd overrides or DCT overrides, or
- >something else which would enable us to use them instead of making us go
- >out and get 35' of serial cable which would probably cost upwards to
- >$20.00. Thanx for any help you can give!<:-)
- >Jarrod Cuzens
- >cuzens@netcom.com
- >
- >--
- > cuzens@
-
- You should emulate a phone line i.e. all the tone's
- used by the telephone company.
- Why don't you just buy two NE 2000 network cards they cheap,
- and work better and faster.
- N.B. The ring signal is about 90 volts but I wouldn't try to
- emulate it if I were you.
-