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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier V.34: killing V.FC
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 09:28:32 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4ir7g0$dk6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <314C204F.4403@accutek.com>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.carleton.ca
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- Stephen Satchell (satchell@accutek.com) writes:
- > There are times when you discover you have a problem you never thought
- > about when you upgrade software in the most unlikely places. In my
- > case, I was trying to find a better version of the PPP software my
- > Macintosh uses to connect with my ISP, so I downloaded FreePPP 1.0.5 and
- > installed it.
- >
- > One of the advantages of FreePPP 1.0.5 over what I was using is that
- > FreePPP displays the text from the CONNECT message the modem sends to
- > the computer so I can see what's going on.
- >
- > In the case of the USRobotics Courier V.34 (everything) I was astonished
- > to see that the connect message indicated I was using V.FC protocol
- > instead of V.34 protocol when calling the Supra modems my ISP uses.
- > What a surprise! So it was off to ftp://www.usr.com to locate the
- > latest manual on the V.34 modem to see how I could turn V.FC off.
-
- This was a bug with some of the first few Supra v.34 firmwares,
- you might want to check what code you're ISP is running. I think the
- newest is 1.300-13. If they're really running one of those early
- firmwares with the vFC connect bug, they've also got a lot of other
- problems, fewer features and worse performance then the current firmwares,
- and it would probably be a very good idea to update to the newest code.
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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