Paul, at 00:37 on May 11 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

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

DD>> AT&F1&W

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

I initialised my modem with AT&F1&W - I reset my modem with ATZ

Both of these commands have been/are issued at the SAME port speed.

David
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