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echo: aust_modem
to: Peter Collis
from: David Drummond
date: 1996-04-07 07:23:52
subject: Dicey Modem

Peter, at 09:58 on Apr 04 1996, you wrote to Warren Howard ...

WH>> Have a friend who purchased a ZOLTRIX internal modem in 
WH>> Hong Kong! Yup! You guessed it - it doesn't quite work 
WH>> right.

WH>> Can't seem to get it to dial out - error message "No dial 
WH>> tone" I can dial into it - no worries

WH>> Any guru wanting to help - feel free

PC> An easy one, just set the X setting to 3 by typing ATX3 
PC>  and it
PC> will work, all this is doing is telling the modem to ignore 
PC> dial tone detection, some cheap OS modems have trouble 
PC> detecting our dial tone.

It seems that some _expensive_ OS modems have trouble too.

David
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