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- From: dee@dvert.com (Don Black)
- Date: 07 Apr 96 01:02:00
- Message-ID: <db3_9604070400@dvert.com>
- Organization: Dataverters CC. Suppliers of PC equipment to KwaZulu-Natal.
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95
- Subject: Re: Refusing 14.4 and forcing 28.8 connection with USR
-
- Sportster
-
- In article <4jss0n$9q8@opal.CyberGate.COM> elf@cybergate.com (Darren
- Tuetken) writes:
-
- >Meursault@mail.utexas.edu (Steven S. Fang) wrote:
- >
- >Hello.
- E>
- >I have a US Robotics Sportser 28.8 modem and I am running Windows95. I use th
- >32-bit TCP/IP capabilities that came with Windows95 to connect to my Internet
- >service provider.
- E>
- >About half of my ISP's modems are 28.8 while the others are 14.4, but both
- >types are connected to the one and only dial-in line. It's extremely
- >frustrating when I connect at only 14.4. The only way I know how to force a
- >26.4+ connection now is to disconnect whenever I get (or "hear") a 14.4
- >connection and keep re-dialing until I get a 26.4+ connection. That gets to b
- >rather tedious. So ...
- E>
- >Does anyone know of a simpler approach? For instance, is there a scripting
- >utility that I can use to perform that tedious task for me? Any help would be
- >much appreciated.
- E>
- >Although I haven't tried this myself, the manual for my USR 28.8 says
- >to use the following switch
- >
- >&N13 (demand 26,400 bps)
- >&N14 (demand 28,800 bps)
- >
- >I don't see a switch that will allow for either.
- >
- >Add your favorite to your init string.
- >
- >
- >Darren
-
- 28.8 Sportster should support the &U command to limit lower connection
- speed. Setting init string to include &N14 &U13 should force modem to
- connect at 28.8 or 26.4 but no lower .. will not connect if line such
- that lower than 26.4 unattainable.
-
- Don
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- * SPEED 1.30 [NR] * Don Black - Durban - South Africa. dee@dvert.com
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