On Wed 05 Jun at 10:58 Peter Collis (3:713/914.16) wrote to Lewin Edwards:

 HM> NetComm E7F seems to have some problems in this The E7F 
 HM> was the latest of the three 14.4 models, the E7 and the 
 HM> M7F being first, and the E7F adding fax later.

 AM> Right, so it wasn't just an "early attempt" /-:.

 LE> There are at LEAST two models of the E7F - There's the
 LE> SmartModem E7F and the AutoModem E7F (aka Avtek 
 LE> MegaPlusFax V.32bis in a different box). The SmartModem 
 LE> E7F was rather earlier than the AutoModem. AutoModem is 
 LE> still in production.

 PC> True but the E7F Smartmodem was first released when the 
 PC> Series 4 modems were out so they wouldn't have suffered 
 PC> from the v42bis over MNP4 problem that the series 3 
 PC> modems had, I think that was what this thread started 
 PC> out on.

No, but it shows that dial tone detection also fails in some supposedly
mature modem designs.

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