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- From: dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest)
- Subject: Re: HUGE WORLDBLAZER problems...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.213113.12566@hyphen.com>
- Organization: Hyphen, Inc., Wilmington, MA 01887 USA / +1 508 988-0880
- References: <1992Sep4.115114.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:31:13 GMT
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- afrancke@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
-
- [details omitted]
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- >I have had enormous problems getting my Telebit Worldblazer to work properly
- >with the SE/30 (which HAS had a serial port loopback check performed
- >successfully by an authorized Apple dealer recently). Using any DTE speeds, but
- >especially at 38400 or 57600, the modem behaves erratically, substituting the
- >letters X,c,and a for almost any input.
-
- >(i.e., you type "ATDT 18005551212"
- > you see "Xa~~ 18acccc121XXXX" )
-
- >The higher the term speed, the worse it gets. If you type SLOWLY enough at
- >19200, these errors go away. Don't even think about file transfer, though. With
- >the hardware handshaking cable (and s58/68 set to 2), the modem's
- >DTR,RTS,and CTS lights go NUTS, and communication just doesn't happen.
-
- Curious that Telebit doesn't seem to be aware of this. Many users (as
- evidenced by postings here recently) are aware of an apparent significant
- speed limitation in the WB command parser.
- --
- --Dwight A. Ernest Special Projects Engineer I speak only for myself.
- Hyphen, Inc. / 187 Ballardvale St. / Wilmington, MA 01887 / +1 508 988 0880
- dae@world.std.com dwight@hyphen.com
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