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- From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Connecting Supra to Supra
- Message-ID: <26dm9+r.wolfgang@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:31:19 GMT
- References: <zxmgn01.711733886@mailserv>
- Organization: Netcom
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- zxmgn01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Philipp Knirsch) writes:
- : Thats one of the common things all USR users say, but i have now seen a lot
- : of USR users around, and the big prblem with the USR is that you CAN`T
- : actually say what speed you are driving. This is not so with those new modems
- : like the Supra where your speed is shown on the display.
- :
- : And when you call e.g. to the USA from germany, i usually get better cps with
- : my supra than my friend with his HST. His ARQ (or was it ASL?!) light flickered
- : and did`t stop, and often he got just about 200-300cps, and that never ever
- : happend to me with my supra. It can be that my supra drops down to 4800 (
- : often with some help of me sothat it doesn`t drop carrier, but thats probably
- : a software problem which is to be solved in one ROM update that follows),
- : and with this i got about 500-600 cps using V.42bis.
-
- Phil, the #1 Supra proponent on comp.dcom.modems.... :-)
-
- Yes, the LCD indicator can be useful on the Supra. On USRs it would be a bit
- more indirect through the transfer rate, but maybe USR is thinking about
- adding more? On the Scout+ its the AT*O command, were you can read the
- connect speed while you are connected.
-
- The 4800 bps on the transatlantic connections maybe more than a software
- problem, if indeed it is a software problem. More likely its indicating the
- modems real top performance for the particular connection concerned. V.32 at
- 4800 bps fallback requires much less signal-to-noise than other protocols, so
- its only natural to use this over others. (I use it mainly for connections
- into known difficult areas like California to Moskow, so that I even connect
- if I get a bad connection. Its difficult for me to hear a ring in Moskow,
- because the modem there is quite busy and also the network into Russia is
- often overloaded.)
-
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