Tom, at 09:20 on May 29 1996, you wrote to All...

TP> A couple of days ago I got myself a new modem. After a few simple
TP> adjustments it seem to work quite nice - I'm getting 3770 cps on
TP> v34+ connections and 3270 cps on straight v34.

That's about par for the course.

TP> My only problem is that the modem seems to freeze sometimes for
TP> 20-40 seconds. I'm not really sure what's happening, but since it
TP> never happened before and I'm using same BBS for a few years now, so
TP> I blame the modem. Is this something that can happen with v34 and v34+ ?

No, but it's still a modem problem.  Yours is an internal USR Sportster,
right?  USR have acknowledged that a problem exists with V.42bis, and until
such time as a replacement EPROM is made available, you'll have to disable
BTLZ data compression to work around the problem.

TP> EPROM date             11/22/95

Yep, that's one of the dodgy ones.

TP> &A3  &B1  &C1  &D2  &G0  &H1  &I0 
&K3  &M5  &N0
TP> &P1  &R2  &S0  &T5  &U0  &Y1

Change &K3 to &K0 and your lockups will disappear.

TP> Fallback               Disabled  ***What exactly is it and how to
TP> Protocol               LAPM      ***enable it?????

That applies to HST only, and why USR included that in the non-HST
Sportsters is beyond me.  You can safely ignore it.

Regards, Bill
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