--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4E00005Date: 04/08/98 From: RON HARPER Time: 09:57pm \/To: JOHN ALDRICH (Read 4 times) Subj: 56k modem -> Well, to tell you the truth, that's kind of an outdated program... :) These -> days most term programs are for Windows / Win95... :) The copy I have is the -> LAST "freeware" version of QmodemPro...and I don't have a distribution archi -> It was written by Mustang Software, the authors of Wildcat! bbs software. As -> say, I don't know if there is a version for DOS available any more... *shrug -> Sorry I couldn't be much help.... Well......lets see..... since it's a freeware version, is there any way you could transfer a copy to me to the neverending BBS? the address is bbs.neverending.com just a thought\hope. Thanks, Ron Harper --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The NeverEnding BBS/Deltona,FL/407-860-7720/bbs.never (1:3618/555) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4E00006Date: 04/08/98 From: RON HARPER Time: 10:01pm \/To: ROSEMARY ESPOSITO (Read 4 times) Subj: 56k in dos -> So anyway, the short answer is yes, you can run a 56k modem in DOS, and -> probably at a rate close to what you connect in Windows. Thanks for the reply & info. Ron Harper --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The NeverEnding BBS/Deltona,FL/407-860-7720/bbs.never (1:3618/555) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4E00007Date: 04/08/98 From: DAVID BOWERMAN Time: 09:14pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG (Read 4 times) Subj: USR Courier Question Christopher Armstrong wrote in a message to Rj Pauloski: RP> My end -> 28800 RP> Other End -> 31200 RP> It doesn't seem to make sense to me, however it may be possible. RP> I am using BNU as my fossil driver. CA> With any modem of any kind you cannot have different connect speeds CA> at each end otherwise you couldn't transfer files properly. Assymetric connect speeds have virtually no effect on file transfers. Heck, I transferred many files using HST at 16,800 in one direction and 450 in the other. In the case above, one modem is transmitting at 28800 and receiving at 31200 while the other end is transmitting at 31200 and receiving at 28800. A rather normal situation using V.34 for instance. Regards, David --- timEd/2 1.10+ * Origin: Frog Hollow -- a scenic backroad off the Infobahn (1:153/290) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4E00008Date: 04/09/98 From: PAUL HALYUNG Time: 12:10am \/To: CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG (Read 4 times) Subj: USR Courier Question > With any modem of any kind you cannot have different connect speeds at > each end otherwise you couldn't transfer files properly. Not true all the time, Chris. With the HST protocol, you get 14K/450 or 12k/450 (forward channel/back channel). With V.34+ (another asymetric transfer protocol) you can get 33.6K/28.8K (transfer and receive) or other rates. With initial line probes and agreed connect rates may be represented differently (hence reported differently) on each end. What the user is describing DOES happen, and is NOT - repeat NOT out of the ordinary. Paul F. Halyung --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: [Windsor Download BBS] USR V.Everything (519)-973-9330 (1:246/15) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4E00009Date: 04/09/98 From: LARRY ROBERTS Time: 10:43pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: 56K data stream problem Does ne1 have a 56K Flex modem, and use Deltech as their ISP? I just bought an Amjet 56K Flex internal modem yesterday. I installed, it with the lastest Win95 drivers, and checked J-Mark's web page to make sure I have the lastest BIOS, which I do. The modem is a PnP/Non-PnP hybrid. I set the Com port, & IRQ using jumpers, and not the Plug n Pray feature. This modem is not a Winmodem, and will support 386/486/Pentium class computers, so it works in Real DOS as well. My problem is that even though I connect at 46K everytime, about 2, or 3 min. into each session the data streams stops. It's like if the network becomes lagged for about 15 to 20 sec., then it starts working fine again. It does this about every 2 to 3 min. for about 15 to 20 sec. all the time. It does it no matter what I'm doing online. If I'm downloading it will start out with a CPS rate of 5300, after a few minutes, it stops all together, the CPS rate then falls as it sits doing nothing to around 3200 CPS. Then it starts back up again. It starts gaining the CPS rate back, but before it can reach 5300 CPS again, it stops, & loses even more CPS than the time before. Actually, it takes the same amount of ime to d/l a file with the 56K than it would with 33.6K. I have no real speed increase. Also. If I'm playing games such as Quake2, it plays ok, then when the ata stops, the little "phone socket" picture comes up in the corner of the screen signaling that I'm losing data. The games freezes, and then after it starts p again, the movement of the game speeds up as if the data was being sent to he CPU in one large burst, then it cataches back up. If I was shot by someone during the freeze up, I don't know untill it starts up again. This makes playing impossible. In DOS I play Descent through KaliDOS. When it does it then, all players in the games drop out at once, and then return after the data starts up gain. This also sucks as well. Even in Chats, it seems that I can't get, or send a message. when this happens. All the message. that people were typing during my data freeze, comes scrolling out in one large burst after the data stream starts p again. This doesn't seem to happen when I connect at 33.6 on their Sulpher line. Does ne1 else have this type of problems, and does this sound like the modem may be defective, or just trash quality. I have a 33.6 Amjet USR clone that performs as well as a real USR, and is very good. I figured that I would get the same quality from the 56K as well. Thanks. PS: Disregard the question about DelTech. I had copied & pasted this message from a local BBS post I made to this BBS so I didn't have to retype all that. ... "And we'll have fun, fun, fun..." What? A moderator? Never mind. --- * Origin: www.blackboardbbs.com, Midland, TX, 915-520-3915 (1:3808/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4F00000Date: 04/09/98 From: JOHN ALDRICH Time: 09:45pm \/To: RON HARPER (Read 4 times) Subj: 56k modem Hello RON! Wednesday April 08 1998 21:57, RON HARPER wrote to JOHN ALDRICH: RH> Well......lets see..... since it's a freeware version, is there any way RH> you could transfer a copy to me to the neverending BBS? the address is RH> bbs.neverending.com just a thought\hope. I'd rather not. :) I'd suggest you find a demo version of Telix or something like that. I *know* Telix is supposedly still being developed. AND it has support for the latest modems. :) John ... Aardvark: Strenuous labor. --- GoldED/386 2.50+ 91LM1 * Origin: The Dungeon BBS 33.6/V.34 24-hours 423/875-4137 (1:362/669) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4F00001Date: 04/09/98 From: RICK COLLINS Time: 06:39pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: USR Courier Question At 16:41/07/Apr, Christopher Armstrong (3:714/970) said: ==================================== RP>> I was wondering if it is possible to have different connect speeds at RP>> each end of the connection. RP>> Eg. RP>> My end -> 28800 RP>> Other End -> 31200 RP>> It doesn't seem to make sense to me, however it may be possible. RP>> I am using BNU as my fossil driver. CA> With any modem of any kind you cannot have different connect speeds at each CA> end otherwise you couldn't transfer files properly. Sorry, but you're mistaken. V.34 permits asymetric receive and transmit speeds, and of the V.90 is 31,200 upload and up to 56 K download. Your "transmit" speed is the other end's "receive" speed and vice-versa. Rick --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: The Warlock's Cave, Ottawa ON (1:163/215.39) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4F00002Date: 04/10/98 From: LARRY ROBERTS Time: 08:05pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: 56K Flex Modems In my previous post, I had explaned about how my new 56K modem would seem to stop sending, or receiving any data every 2 min. for about 15 sec. when connected at 46K to my ISP. The modem is an Amjet. J-Mark is the distributor of these modems, but doing an FCC ID search, I found that Askey is the real OEM manufacture. I called their 1-800 line and found that they provide the Tech. support for these modems. I told the guy what was happening, and he said that it may be an incompatablility problem with my ISP. He had a thick accent, and from what I understood, he said that there are different types of 56K Flex firmware. He told me to try, & call another ISP that supports 56K Flex, and see if it still does it. He said that the Askey site has a newer BIOS Flash upgrade than the one listed on J-Marks website that may help. As far as calling another ISP, I don't see how I could do this since I don't have an account with another. I can call the access number, but without being able to logon, and download, or something, I can't tell if it still acts up. What are the different types of 56K Flex firmware. I thought there was only 56K Flex, & X2 as of now. He also informed me that upgrading to v.90 would not improve the problem, because all that does is allow me to use an ISP that had X2, and also upgraded to v.90. My ISP uses the Motarola 56K modems. Does anyone know if Askey, and Motarolas are non-compatable? ... "Other kings said I was _daft_ to build a castle in a swamp!" --- * Origin: www.blackboardbbs.com, Midland, TX, 915-520-3915 (1:3808/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4G00000Date: 04/10/98 From: RON HARPER Time: 07:32pm \/To: JOHN ALDRICH (Read 4 times) Subj: 56k modem -> Hello RON! -> Wednesday April 08 1998 21:57, RON HARPER wrote to JOHN ALDRICH: -> RH> Well......lets see..... since it's a freeware version, is there any way -> RH> you could transfer a copy to me to the neverending BBS? the address is -> RH> bbs.neverending.com just a thought\hope. -> I'd rather not. :) I'd suggest you find a demo version of Telix or something -> like that. I *know* Telix is supposedly still being developed. AND it has -> support for the latest modems. :) -> John I found the Dos version of Qmodem on Mustang's BBS I have not downloaded or tried it yet though. Thanks for the reply, Ron --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The NeverEnding BBS/Deltona,FL/407-860-7720/bbs.never (1:3618/555) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 105 HIGH SPEED MODEM Ref: F4G00001Date: 04/10/98 From: JOHN ALDRICH Time: 07:52pm \/To: LARRY ROBERTS (Read 4 times) Subj: 56K data stream problem Hello Larry! Thursday April 09 1998 22:43, Larry Roberts wrote to All: LR> Does ne1 have a 56K Flex modem, and use Deltech as their ISP? [clip] LR> My problem is that even LR> though I connect at 46K everytime, about 2, or 3 min. into each session LR> the data streams stops. It's like if the network becomes lagged for bout LR> 15 to 20 sec., then it starts working fine again. It does this about LR> every 2 to 3 min. for about 15 to 20 sec. all the time. It does it no LR> matter what I'm doing online. Well, I'd say it's DEFINATELY your ISP or your phone lines. That should NOT happen with a 56k modem. Did this happen with your previous modem? If so, and it happens with local bulletin boards as well, then the problem is likely your phone lines. If it ONLY happens with your internet provider, I'd say it's time to complain to Tech Support and/or change internet providers. Based on what you're saying about it NOT happening on the 33.6 line, I'd say it's DEFINATELY a problem with your ISP's 56k support. John ... A good organizer is the one who is careful to plan ahe --- GoldED/386 2.50+ 91LM1 * Origin: The Dungeon BBS 33.6/V.34 24-hours 423/875-4137 (1:362/669)