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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!edm
- From: edm@halcyon.com (Ed Morin)
- Subject: More WB Strangeness
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.154322.3558@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1992Aug12.222706.23021@mccc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:43:22 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- Ok, as long as we are swapping war stories, here's what I have observed:
-
- 1. I allow non-error-correcting connections and a V.32bis connection
- is made _without_ error-correction. Once that connection is dropped,
- the phone company reasserts dial-tone which the WB promptly locks
- on to and proceeds to pump trash into my login process _indefinitely_!
- The only solution was to set S182=2 and set up an old TB+ on another
- line for dumb 2400 baud modems to connect to. :-(
-
- 2. More recently, without provocation, the WB seems to answer the line
- and then drop it connection within about 20 seconds. If I call up
- with a voice phone it just hangs up before it finishes the full tone
- cycle. A hardware reset of the modem seems to make the problem go
- away, but for how long??? :-(
-
- 3. And, of course, the other "standard" problems that have been mentioned
- here that Telebit (hopefully) will have fixed soon! :-(
-
- I would be interested in hearing if anybody else has experienced these
- problems and what you did about them.
-
- Also, I should mention that I am working with Telebit on these problems,
- and they are doing what they can, but it seems clear the WB was before its
- time. I should have probably bought T-2500's - or some other brand...
-
- In (I think) MacUser, they rate products with little mice. Like a really
- good product might get five mice. Sort of like rating restaurants with
- stars. Well, I'm rating the WB with smiley faces. And right now, we are
- into the "negative" region by three...
-
- -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
-
- :-0 :-( :-( :-| :-) :-) :-) :-) ;-)
-
- Hopefully, Telebit will get things back into the "positive" region where they
- (in my opinion) have been for years.
-
- --
- Ed Morin
- Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- "Serving the Usenet community since 1987."
- edm@nwnexus.WA.COM
-