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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: RC288ACx-based modem: AT%Q1 explanation wanted
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 03:27:16 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet5.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- Ralf Fritzsch (Fritzsch@Hamburg.BAW.DE) writes:
- > Dear modem gurus!
- >
- > I have a Rockwell RC288ACx-based modem (a german CREATIX SG2834), which
- > supports the AT%Q1 command. The output (on a V.34 connection) is like that:
- >
- > 005 028 038 001 000
- >
- > Does anybody know, what these numbers mean?
- > Any help very appreciated!
-
- Well, here's what some file has to say about them:
-
- <cut from TESTLINE.TXT>
- Here is an example output from the AT%Q1 command:
-
- 005 028 038 000 002
- | | | | |
- | | | | \___ } Pre-emphasis
- | | | \_______ } TX Level Reduction
- | | \___________ } Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
- | \_______________ } Signal to Noise Ratio Index (Not in dB)
- \___________________ } Symbol Rate Index
-
- This example (from my node1 to node2) shows a fairly decent connection,
- when interpreted with the following:
-
- Symbol rate index (higher the better)
- 0 = 2400 -Supports up to and including 21600 BPS
- 2 = 2800 -Supports up to and including 24000 BPS
- 3 = 3000 -Supports up to and including 26400 BPS
- 4 = 3200 -Supports up to and including 28800 BPS
- 5 = 3429 -Supports up to and including 28800 BPS
-
- SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio Index
- The reported value is a raw value. To convert to dB use:
- db= raw*1.7 -7
- Thus for the example (28*1.7-7) it is about 40dB
-
- THD Total Harmonic Distortion
-
- TX Level Reduction
- - just indicates how many dB lower the transmitter is feeding
- the central office.
- Zero through E (hex) in -dBm
-
- Pre-Emphasis
- - Pre-emphasis is a linear equalization method where the transmit
- signal spectrum is shaped to compensate for amplitude distortion.
- - There are 11 different filter spectrums for various
- tuning to the local loop. They are labled 0 - A.
- <end quote>
-
- Thanks to Richard Town for the original post..
-
- Anthony
-
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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