--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00026 Date: 03/05/98 From: BILL EASTMAN Time: 07:15am \/To: BILL ESPOSITO (Read 6 times) Subj: How to offer 56K to BBS users? You'll need an I-modem and ISDN (at least) to offer dialup access at 56k (limited to 53K in the United States). --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: The HUB * Austin TX * Centex PCUG * 512-346-1852 (1:382/1201) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00027 Date: 03/06/98 From: CRAIG MEEKINS Time: 05:58am \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: Courier Init String * MOOD: Always bent outta shape)( I would like for some one to post the full init string they use for connections to a ISP that provide better than 28.8 connects on their USRobotics V.Everything Modem please. The reason is that over the weekend the 'relatives' with their computer (would be) know-it-all father stayed at my beach house. Well apparently he thought he could squeeze out a few extra cps by tweaking with the init string! Well I'm sure you know how this ends. At any rate, I can only connect at 28.8 now where as before always 31.2. Any help is appreciated and perhaps save a marriage! Thanks. C Meekins -Internet: cmeekins@viperlink.net .!. Using a Pentium 133 and Oil Cans of Fosters Beer! --- Terminate 5.00/Pro TerMail/QWK Terminate point system * Origin: Doc's Place, Clw Fla. telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org (1:3603/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00028 Date: 03/05/98 From: LAWRENCE MINTZ Time: 10:44pm \/To: FRANK SEXTON (Read 8 times) Subj: V.90 Upgrade Availability > I hate that damn wizard thing too. Luckily I don't > have > any Sportsters myself. But the idea of requiring one > specific operating system to flash a modem has always > stuck > in my craw. The Xmodem flash for the Courier has > remedied > that. I guess they're figuring since the Sportster is > for > the mass market... well... Win95. Someone in this > echo > recently asked about the difference between the > Sportster > and the Courier. This is in my opinion an important > difference. There is *now* also a Wizard for Macintosh on 3Com's web site. Larry --- RA/Pro 2.50 * Origin: Mintz BBS, Silver Spring, MD (1:109/493) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00029 Date: 03/03/98 From: JONATHAN MICHAELS Time: 12:02am \/To: GENE LOWRY (Read 6 times) Subj: What a load of bollox V. Gene Lowry wrote in a message to Jim Westbrook: GL> In a message of Jim Westbrook (1:382/29) writes: JW> One of my downlinks (I'm a mail hub in our net) has a recent production JW> Rockwell-based 33.6kbps internal modem. The modem on my mail system is JW> a USR square-LED Dual Standard (originally 16.8kbps, upgraded via JW> daughterboard and SDL's to 33.6kbps with /X2 enabled). When my system JW> originates a call, his end goes off-hook, attempts negotiation which JW> ultimately fails approximately 90 percent of the time. About one out JW> ten attempts results in a successful connection at 28.8kbps. This JW> happens with both phone lines (tried using the voice line a few times). JW> The obvious conclusion is that there is something about the USR modem JW> which is causing the connection difficulty. I just can't figure out JW> WHAT the problem really is. Much less, what to do to correct it. JW> Any ideas? GL> Something I've seen recommended is to disable the 3429 symbol rate GL> for that call, I'll add disable V.8CI as well. See if setting GL> S54=96 for that call helps any. I know you can do individual GL> system overrides for BinkleyTerm, don't know about other mailers. i have been following this thread and have asked similar questions with regards to a similarish problem .. thoiuh i came at it from the bad mnp angle and the inability of the modems to handle the v.34 signalling, especially if it were an olf v.fc rockwell. i have an old v.fc rockwell that performs near perfectly flawlessly with my courier, it is an old dual standard with the square leds and has just the one motherboard inside it and identifies itself aas a v.everything that has now been upgraded to x2 working with the latest austrailan flashrom 1st oct 1997. by the way my old (about 4 plus years) is a microcom deskporte fast + v.fc 28k8 desktop modem .. one of the first made in china ones .. not as good as the made in america ones that i originally had but its still got the microcom nane one it and thats all that counts i suppose. anyay .. the rockwell that i am having problems with keep disconnection for reasons that can best be descrbed as (in jonathan speak) not being able to process the incomeing data stream and ostensibly manifesting as a bad line. probelm here is that if i drop the line speed the 'problem' follows me down the dce rates .. 28k8 (remotes max), 26k6, 21k2, 19k2 etc etc all the way down to 14k4. yet when my telco engineer tests both locat loops he gets near text book line noise and line quality stats from his usr courier and when he dials into my courier we get 33k6 connects that extend right out to some 3.5 km of simulated copper. my loop is about the same as the rockwell modems loop that is about 500 meters from our respective telephone exchanges, sorry i don't know what they are called in your part of the world. one person has sugessted that given the cleanliness of our circuits and the shortness of the loop, we could be experienceing the reverse of most users problems, that is our modems are having a problems with the signal level that might be just to high .. is their any way to pad the couriers output line signal ? i am desperate, the telco tech is frustrated and i've tried all the ideas i can think off . even putting my microcom on anther serial port and routing the calls for this particular node through it .. ok its weired but its the only solution that so far has worked reliably. gene, i will try what you have suggested here to jim and report back. regards ... jonathan EMail: jlm@caamora.com.au EMail: jon@mpx.com.au ... i do all i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ? --- * Origin: Fire&Ice CBCS +61 2 9-317-2184 - USR Courier v34+&hst (3:712/808) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00030 Date: 03/04/98 From: SCOTT LITTLE Time: 03:15pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: Courier Hello all, I just bought myself a nice Courier, and I was wondering.... What's the command to allow +++ to return to command mode, rather than terminate a call? I tried all three AT&D settings.... Can I downgrade with the software updates? ie. if I upgrade and it botches or is not as good etc. can I remove it or install an older patch over the top? Thanks. -- Scott Little, 3:712/848@fidonet ; admin@cyberia.asstdc.com.au www.asstdc.com.au/~cyberia --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Cyberia: You know you want it. [02-9534-1702] (3:712/848) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00031 Date: 03/03/98 From: TONY PATER Time: 02:18pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Sportster - Optimum Settings ? I recently upgraded my modem to a USR 56k Sportster. I'm having problems, however, when trying to upload files to various BBS's, (using Z-modem 32bit CRC) and OS/2 'Livewire' and SIO comm drvs . 1. Initially, the transfer rate shoots to 6000+, then falls back quite quickly to 2300+. (re-training ?) 2. Then I invariably get errors/re-tries, and eventually a complete lockup of the transfer. Downloads are Ok (3200+) Since the 'upload' problem/freeze/lockup ocurrs on more than one BBS, I think that there could be an 'S register' which will give a reliable 'upload' link. Right now I'm using the 'deafults' provided with the USR modem. Can someone advise their 'ideal' set (S registers, etc), and or post their setup so that I can place it in the USR modem. Many thanks for any assistance, (btw., I think the USR user manual is effin useless). Regards Tony Sydney, Oz Wed 04/03/1998 01:29:03 ... 4dos/4os2.. under Warp 4 --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Cyberia: You know you want it. [02-9534-1702] (3:712/848) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00032 Date: 03/05/98 From: TONY PATER Time: 06:27pm \/To: TOM RUTHERFORD (Read 6 times) Subj: FIFO UART -=> Quoting Tom Rutherford to William Grinolds <=- TR> On 26 Feb 98 05:11:19, William Grinolds said this to Dale A Cook TR> about "hayes commands": WG> Dale A Cook wrote in a message to William Grinolds: WG> port rates, you'd need one with a 64-byte FIFO DAC> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DAC> please tell me where I can purchase such a chip? thanx in DAC> advance! WG> I'm not sure - try checking around at your local computer retail WG> stores... WG> I haven't personally seen one yet, but I do know they exist. TR> Supra had one on their V.32bis internal modem. Wasn't a 64-byte UART, TR> though; it was what they called a SmartUART, and it had a 1k-byte TR> buffer. Wasn't compatible with the 16550, though, as far as commands TR> were concerned. So, I don't know how that worked, or if they made it TR> compatible and allow people to order just it. Tom, isn't that the NC16650 uart (not the 16550), and it has to be National. I read the specs somewhere (can't recall), but it also was capable of handling upto 448k baud through-put. Regards Tony Sydney, Oz Fri 06/03/1998 5:30:49 ... 4dos/4os2.. under Warp 4 --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Cyberia: You know you want it. [02-9534-1702] (3:712/848) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00033 Date: 03/06/98 From: FRANK SEXTON Time: 05:12am \/To: FRANCOIS ROY (Read 8 times) Subj: V.90 Upgrade Availability -=> /* Quoting Francois Roy to Frank Sexton */ <=- FR> I don't recall specific Sportster references in the FR> original post (maybe I missed them) so I assumed the FR> method for flashing the Courier would be wizard-based FR> too. It's not. -Frank (fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton) --- Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 * Origin: Wildcard BBS - Thornton, CO 1-303-252-0491 (1:104/725) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00034 Date: 03/06/98 From: FRANK SEXTON Time: 05:39am \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: USR V.90 PCWorld All, http://www.pcworld.com/news/daily/data/0398/980305174507.html According to the above PC World article of March 5th, there have some problems (connections etc) with the v.90 release. Also, according to the article, the v.90 code has already been released for Sportsters but not for Couriers. The article quotes USR/3com as saying that the Courier code will be out by the end of March. -Frank (fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton) --- Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 * Origin: Wildcard BBS - Thornton, CO 1-303-252-0491 (1:104/725) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 242 USR MODEMS Ref: F3E00035 Date: 03/04/98 From: RICHARD TOWN Time: 08:04am \/To: EDWARD HOBSON (Read 6 times) Subj: fresh UK code? -=> Quoting Edward Hobson to Richard Town <=- > > Where is this "acknowledgement" What faulty symbol rate problems? > EH> Same one as usual, Richard. Where is this "acknowledgement" from Rockwell that you referred to, Edward? > Strange, for I didn't know v.pcm used symbol rate encoding EH> Who said anything about V.PCM? I was referring to V.34. V34Plus to V34+ symbol rate negotiation was fixed in Steve's excellent _7778. But it's not there in the UK x2 upgrade. Mebe the international code's put them back? Certainly it's got later US x2 tweaks in it... rgdZ Richard --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: Another message via PackLink +44(0)1812972486 (2:254/235)