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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!randy
- From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
- Subject: Re: What's a good 14400 modem?? (Intel?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.050510.21640@psg.com>
- Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon, US
- References: <1992Aug24.143532.8721@lowton.rn.com> <PZR7PB2w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> <1992Sep1.034335.22089@psg.com> <p9nuclo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:05:10 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
-
- > &D3 is a fetish of mine that saves a lot of grief
-
- We run &D0 so that we can reboot or otherwise muck with the routers without
- dropping the modem-modem connection. A number of our links are dialup, but
- left up 24/7.
-
- > S2=128 just turns off +++
-
- Seems not to occur (with Dale's patented pauses) in IP connections. Leaving
- it enabled allows us to muck with modems' settings without losing links.
-
- > "H3 is the default, so I don't know why you set it
- > \N3 is the default, so I don't know why you set it
-
- Same reason you set &C0, but in our case they worked. :-)
-
- [ actually, i heard a completely unconfirmed rumor that an early rom set may
- have gone out with some regs or another not defaulting as documented. ]
-
- > None of those appear to me likely to affect the speed at which the
- > modems move bytes.
-
- Agreed.
-
- Our tests were mono and bidirectional FTP of uncompressed text with DTEs
- locked at 56kb. These are PC-Route and ka9q running on 12MHz 286s over real
- telco lines around town.
-
- > a pair of Silicon Graphics IRIS's
-
- This might be your problem. Could we borrow a few for our modem testing? :-)
-
- randy
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