TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: aust_modem
to: Hamish Moffatt
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-02-15 22:17:54
subject: USR Courier V34 problems

PE>> The last &W was done at 57600.  I then go and use 38400.  I type
PE>> in ATZ.  It auto-detects the AT and sends the response,
"OK" back
PE>> to me at 38400.  I then proceeds to send the "RING" word to me
PE>> at 57600.  It's either designed wrong, or it's a bug.  There is
PE>> absolutely no sense in using two different baud rates to my session.
PE>> Didn't happen with my Spirit II either.

> It's not USR's fault - it's inherent in the situation.  After a reset, the
> modem has no record of the DTE baud rate - but it can, and does, remember
> the last AT&W baud rate, that's permanent.

PE>> You reckon this happens on Rockwell-based modems?

HM> MMmmmm. FOSSIL is locked at 57600; fired up a non-fossil terminal at 38400 
HM> and typed ATZ, got OK, then called the number; got RING okay. Last &W was 
HM> definately done at 57600.

And I presume you are using a Rockwell modem.  Yes, you are
experiencing what any decent implementation of auto-baud does.
BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

---
* Origin: X (3:711/934.9)

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.