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- From: obg@nada.kth.se (Olof Backing)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster:Fallback disabled ???
- Date: 26 Feb 96 23:58:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <obg.825379119@nada.kth.se>
- References: <4f5etk$3rn@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <4gqvv2$8ie@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <obg.825356746@nada.kth.se> <4gtf5g$dpf@panix3.panix.com>
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- In <4gtf5g$dpf@panix3.panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
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- >In article <obg.825356746@nada.kth.se>, Olof Backing <obg@nada.kth.se> wrote:
- >>In <4gqvv2$8ie@newsbf02.news.aol.com> steenuk@aol.com (Steen UK) writes:
- >>
- >>>Please try &N14 if it works let me know.
- >>
- >>Which does what on a 28.8? I have the same problem on a 14.4, ie. it
- >>doesn't do online fall forward. If &N14 is some sort of hardcoding the
- >>link speed, I don't think this is the answer since the manual states
- >>that there will be no connection if the remote modem doesn't operate
- >>at that speed.
- >>
- >>I have found a line in my Link Statistics Page about fallback. It is
- >>always set to disabled, although my modem do fallback from 14.4 to 12
- >>sometimes.
-
- >An unfortunate choice of words that USR has continued since the very early
- >days. If, in the link diagnostic, it says fallback is DISABLED, it really
- >means that fallback DID NOT OCCUR during that session. That's all.
-
- But you didn't read my article! I said that "...always set to
- disabled, although my modem do fallback...". With fallback in this
- case I notice that I connect in 14.4kbits/s, but after a while I have
- 12kbits/s. Can you explain that?
-
- /Olof
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