FA> I have a USR Sportster 33.6k v34 ... what is the best init 
FA> string for my modem?

DD> AT&F1&W

I hope you don't really have that as your init string.  &W means
write to NVRAM.  I believe you can only write to NVRAM a few
thousand times before the NVRAM becomes dodgy.  You want to do
something like the above ONCE, and then ATZ from then on.

BFN.  Paul.
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