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- From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
- Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <92227.38009.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:40:02 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In <1992Aug14.151938.10653@nntp.hut.fi>, Tapio Sand writes:
-
- >In article <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> sharky@buscard.fidonet.org (Gary
- >>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.
-
- Upgrade the serial port? Even for an *internal* modem on COM3? I was under the
- impression that the UART on the serial ports were only important to external
- modems running from COM1 (or COM2 if there are 2 serial ports). When I
- inquired about my upcoming upgrade to a 9600 or 14.4k *internal* modem, I was
- told that an internal modem would use a 16550 on *its own card*. Is this the
- case? Am I understanding this correctly? Am I misinterpreting something??
-
- I was under the impression that internal modems don't use the serial port...
-
-
- Tim Irvin j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
-