* Reply to msg originally in Modems Conf     (Aust)  [ Tag: AUST_MODEM  ]

-=> Quoting Gery Rohrig to Peter Kay <=-

 PK> Help! I've been calling SPCUG's Mail Exchange BBS usually the 28800
 PK> connect modem, sometime the 14400 connect modem for some months now and
 PK> from time to time I have difficulty connecting. Sometimes I get through
 PK> the welcome menus ok but if not within approx 55 seconds from

 GR> If you call line 1, then you are connecting to a NETCOMM M34F modem.
 GR> I have problems there to. The IBM BBS has the same on line 1, you have
 GR> problems there to?
 I very rarly call the IBM bbs. but from memory I recall little difficulty
 when compared to the Mail Exchange bbs. I recieved a reply quoted below
 about adding %E2, this seems to have done the trick. I've had much more
 reliable connections since implementing it.

-=> Quoting Bill Grimsley to Peter Kay <=-

 BG> Peter, at 16:28 on May 26 1996, you wrote to All...
 
 PK> within approx 55 seconds from connection I receive a No Carrier Message
and 
 PK> I've been dropped!

 BG> Is this at V.34 or V.FC ?

my modem is a Simple Computing V.FC

 PK> WinComm Pro ver 1.1 for Windows initialization string is
 PK> AT&F0E1V1Q0L3&C1&D2&K3S11=95S38=20S95=2 %C3\N3S7=90

 BG> Add %E2 to that string, which will allow your modem to fall back,
 BG> rather than dropping carrier when it needs to retrain.  Of course, the
 BG> remote will need to have that function enabled as well (most do).

... Send lawyers, guns, and money.  The shit has hit the fan.
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