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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster 33.6 Retrain disconnect ???
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 01:19:48 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- Greg Bretting (bretting@insync.net) wrote:
- : On 13 Feb 1996 19:27:50 -0500, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- : >:
- : >: : There were 3 requests from the Cardinal to retrain and there were 3 link
- : >: : timeouts. There were no requests from the Sportster to retrain. This
- : >: : implies that the Cardinal is seeing problems on its receive. Try your
- : >: : friend's Supra from your house (on your line) and see if it is more
- : >: : stable. An alternative test would be to bring your modem to your
- : >: : friend's place and try it. If it shows that only the Sportster has
- : >: : trouble, you will need to contact USR to return it for repair.
- :
- : I wan't able to find the original article, so please forgive the nested
- : attributes, but...
-
- I can forgive the nested attributes but I have a hard time with the
- several pages of quotes to get to the definition of Retrains Requested..
-
- : The above interpretation of the ATI6 dump is somewhat incorrect; the
- : "Retrains requested" field refers to retrains requested by the local modem,
- : NOT the remote modem. In the above example, it was the Sportster - not the
- : Cardinal at the other end - that requested three retrains. This according
- : to info supplied by USR along with their USRSTATS program... here is an
- : excerpt from that - pay special attention to the retrains requested/granted
- : part:
- :
- : Retrains Requested - This field is a count of the number of times the
- : modem sent a request for a re-train to the remote end. This happens
- : when the line quality degrades to the point where the modems lose sync
- : with each other. Note that under some modulation types, and with
- : certain configuration settings, the remote modem is NOT required to
- : *honor* this request, it may be simply ignored. This field corresponds
- : with the "Retrains Granted" field of the REMOTE modem, NOT the field in
- : THIS report.
- :
- : Retrains Granted - This field is a count of the number of times the
- : modem responded to a re-train request from the remote end. This field
- : corresponds to the "Retrains Requested" field of the REMOTE modem, NOT
- : the field in THIS report.
-
- This was all you needed to post. I appreciate the correction.
-
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