DD> The Courier is NOT faulty in this repect. That is how ALL Couriers behave.  

Fucked by design then.

DD> Locked baudrate means LOCKED baudrate.  In a locked baudrate situation the 
DD> rate isn't supposed to change.  There is no mention (that I can find) in 
DD> the manual to support your theory.

There's no documentation of your theory either.  Where does it 
say that "ATZ" at 38400 will return the "OK" at 38400?  BTW,
where does your documentation say that if you set the speed to
38400 and then go ATS0=0 instead of ATZ that the RINGs will
come through at 38400, but if you just do the ATZ the rings
will come through at the NVRAM speed?

DD> The only reason it accepts your 38400 AT command is in case you wish to 
DD> LOCK the baud to some other rate with AT..&W

And since I didn't, it should return the OK at 57600.

PE> I've just done a reload, just rerun the test, same thing.

DD> Because that is how it is designed to behave.

If it is, it's fucked by design.  Name one bit of software that
will wait for the modem to respond at 38400, and then quickly
switch up to 57600 in case a ring comes through?

PE>> Yeah, and I've got &B1, locked com port.  With "OK" coming 
PE>> in at a different speed to "RING".

DD> The ring is coming in, as designed, at the speed stored in the NVRAM.

Fucked by design, no problem.

PE> And you know that's a blatant lie too.  I was screaming 
PE> about the Spirit whilst you were still in nappies (or a dress 
PE> at any rate). 

DD> Please have the modem sent here where I can test it under the conditions of 
DD> a "perfect" phone line and an experienced operator.

It's not my modem.  You can test your own anyway, it's got the
same faults.

DD> ps.  Why is this portrate thing a problem? If you are running in locked 
DD> port mode, you are running in locked port mode.  Why would you wish to be 
DD> changing the port rate to something other than the one you have locked it 
DD> at?

Locked port rate means setting the terminal speed to a particular
speed, and then NOT adjusting it after a connect.  38400 BECOMES
my locked port rate speed.  Try making your init string ATS0=0,
and watch locked port rate work just as god intended.  BFN.  Paul.
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