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- From: wayneyu1@sfsu.edu (Wayne Yu)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 problems
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 01:27:57 GMT
- Organization: The Best Internet Connection
- Message-ID: <3165c7ee.13075027@news.calstate.edu>
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- I bought an Imagination 28.8 modem from Fry's serveral weeks ago, the
- modem just refuse to work no matter what com ports and IRQ I used.
- Only Windows 95 is able to detect the modem, other softwares couldn't.
- I finally returned it for a Supra 28.8 PnP.
-
- On Fri, 05 Apr 1996 14:50:13 -0800, Main Office <clarity@ccon.com>
- wrote:
-
- >I have some weird stuff going on with my modems and I'm hoping someone
- >may have an idea. I have win95 running netscape with one
- >ImagiNation generic 28.8 fax/modem (so-called Hayes compatible,
- >V.34/V.32bis Data, and V.42bis/MNP-5 Data compression) and one 14.4
- >modem (C.L PhoneBlaster). I have two dial-up accounts with two
- >different providers. The 14.4 works beautifully everywhere. The 28.8
- >sets itself up in w95 as generic 28.8V.34-V.FC. Whenever I use one of
- >the dial-up account with this setting I get drop-outs, regular failures
- >to connect, irregular speeds maxing at 26400, and just basically pain.
- >The other account is more stable: I get better connections, higher
- >speeds more often, less drop-outs, less problems. Either way though,
- >neither by any means make me happy. In addition, I have this pc running
- >on a ne2000 network. When the other machines in the network aren't
- >running, my pc brings up all my ppp dial-up boxes for each account
- >and modem one after another. Then the more problematic account becomes
- >completely unruly, telling me the server I'm dialing into isn't
- >answering after I've already heard it make a connection. The techies at
- >ImagiNation told me to set it as Hayes Optima V34-Vfc 28.8 in setup but
- >it makes no difference. Also, no matter which modem I set it up as,
- >when I do a diagnostic from the modem Control panel, the ATI1 always
- >registers an error.
- >
- >Can anyone tell me if I bought a lemon of a modem, or if there's a way
- >to cure this insanity? Why does one account (the one I want to cancel
- >by the way) give me less problems than the other with the same modem?
- >What can I do?
- >
- >Help please.
- >
- >Thanks, Rafael.
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