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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Courier HST Cellular (was Re: 11/1/95 Courier flash value subtracted "upgrade"?)
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 01:10:57 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <31437548.24143108@news.insync.net>
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- bmwright@xmission.com (Just Me) wrote:
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- > Yes, it works fine, the _answering_ modem can answer in ANY mode
- >it wants without being reinitialized in between calls, including HST
- >Cellular, V.34, V.FC, HST, V.32, V.32bis (you get the picture). Only the
- >calling modem has to be using the &F3 template (or "locked into HST
- >Cellular").
-
- Somehow I have a difficult time envisioning someone "mobiling about"
- with a 110-volt AC-powered Courier umbilically attached to the nation's
- power grid sitting between their fully portable laptop and fully
- portable/mobile cellular telephone. Everytime I've been someplace where
- 110v AC power is available, a conventional landline telephone jack is
- most generally within arm's reach as well. Perhaps HST Cellular was a
- protocol in search of an application.
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- As for HST-Cellular operation, whether the host (base) in fact was
- capable of answering in universal modes or not, the owner's manual
- certainly failed to make that clear. My reading of the manual seems to
- imply that HST-Cellular mode required locking the modem in that mode.
- Quoting from the manual, "NOTE: HST Cellular connections can only be
- made with other U.S. Robotics modems in HST cellular mode. The modem
- cannot be used to place a voice or data call to another phone or modem
- when it is in this mode." (appendix G2, G-3, USR Courier User's Manual
- # 1.042.172-C).
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- I guess that's why there are attorneys; to interpret and place their own
- spin on vague and ambiguous statements.
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- Still the mental image of the guy in a Lexus with an extension cord
- hanging out the window tickles me.
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