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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Old modems compatible with new modems?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 21:26:51 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
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- In article <4igb75$gjs@sam.inforamp.net>, crs0794@inforamp.net says...
- >
- >In article <4id8c7$3g0@hock.apana.org.au>,
- > julian@alphalink.apana.org.au wrote:
- >>I have an older internal banksia 14.4 modem which is made specially (I
- >>think) for the Texas Instruments TM4000E. Now it must be 3 or 4 years
- >>old. My problem is that whenever I dial into my ISP or any BBS it kicks
- >>me off. I have been told that old modems are not compatible with new
- >>ones. Is this right? if not, does anybody out there know of anything
- >>which will remedy my situation
- >
- >Newer modems are _supposed_ to be compatible with older ones, i.e. they have
- >older protocols built in and negotiation code in order to try to match the
- >capabilities of an older modem while connecting. However, realistically,
- >older modems may be confused by the signals sent by newer modems and fail to
- >connect. Sometimes there are settings that you can tweak to reduce the
- >problems, but there are no guarantees.
- >
-
-
- heh.. my friend mike runs a glacticomm chat board and we had to go through
- a bunch of 14.4 modems to find one that wasnt rpi and allowed 300 baud
- connections. its amazing how many rockwell 14.4 modems out there wont connect
- at 300bps.. oh well. we would of got sportsters but his galactibox does not
- support them.. so i think were using hayes optimas for 14.4, and couriers for
- the slip server
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