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- From: jwhite1@rain.org (John White)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Connection Problems
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 01:18:46 GMT
- Organization: RAIN Public Access Internet (805) 967-RAIN
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- In article <4i2qkj$a1v@firebrick.mindspring.com>, fdrennon@pobox.com (Floyd Drennon) wrote:
- >In message <data.826579697@beast> - data@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Daryle A.
- >Tilroe)11 Mar 96 21:28:17 GMT writes:
- >
- >:>What seems to be happening is that the USR will either reset itself
- >:>or connect with no compression if it cannot use the highest symbol
- >:>rate (3456 or something). This seems to be due to Fallback always being
- >:>disabled (I have never done an ati6 and seen it enabled). Thus on any
- >
- >The message is misleading. Although it says fallback is disabled, it
- >actually means that it was not used.
- >
- >:>thing but the cleanest lines (and this varies from call to call) the
- >:>modem with reset itself after a few seconds or connect with out
- >compression.
- >
- >You don't say what type(s) of modems you're connecting with. There's a
- >known problem with Hayes and some of the older Rockwell chipset modems. If
- >you set S54=32 for Couriers and older Sportsters (S registers have changed
- >with the newer Sportsters), you may see an improvement.
- >
- >:>The only way around this is to manually disable the highest or higher
- >:>symbol rates depending on the quality of line (ie ats33=32). I find
- >:>this intolerable and the USR is going back if I cannot fix this
- >:>within a few days.
- >
- >Your active configuration doesn't show this, nor anything else, set that
- >would disable the 3429 symbol rate.
- >
- >:>I can understand a modem not getting fast connections on poor lines but
- >:>it should negoitate the best rate it can without my intervention.
- >
- >You assume that it's solely USR's problem. You need to do some more
- >homework before making accusations like that.
- >
- >Floyd Drennon
- >fdrennon@pobox.com
- >OS/2 & Lan Server Certified Instructor
- >Comp-U-Comm
- >Computer & Communication Consultants
- >
- It almost always is USR's problem. The so called problems the Hayes modems
- have don't seem to prevent them from working well with other NON ROCKWELL
- modems such as Motorola! The Courier doesn't seem to have problems with Hayes
- anymore so why should the Sportster!
-