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- From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.151938.10653@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
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- Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:19:38 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> sharky@buscard.fidonet.org (Gary Sciacca) writes:
- >Anyone know why I would modem problems with windows and
- >not in DOS. I have 2 com ports and 1 internal modem at
- >com 3. The mouse is working fine as com 2 in windows
- >but I'm having flacky probs with and windows application
- >that uses a modem. Hangs system, with faults, download
- >problems. If I use the internal modem with Procomm
- >under DOS 5.0 only, everthing works fine. Do I have some
-
- Ah, the classic question every windows user with a fast (>2400)
- modem asks, sooner or later. The problem is that when a character
- comes in the serial port, it signals with an IRQ that the computer
- should copy the received character into memory. This has to happen
- immediately because the UART (8250 or 16450) has room for one character
- only. With windows running, there is so much activity going on that
- the CPU can't serve the serial port fast enough. This of course
- results in losing incoming charaters.
-
- Solution: replace your serial port UART with a 16550. This has a 16 byte
- buffer, so that the serial port can hold 16 characters before starting
- to lose data. This has solved all my friend's problems similar to yours.
-
- How to find out what UART you have? There must be several programs
- that can report this. The one I know of is Port Finder v2.7
- You can get it via FTP from SIMTEL20 from msdos' sysutl directory
- named pf270.zip.
- European users: nic.funet.fi /pub/msdos/utilities/sysutl/pf270.zip
-
-
-
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