BG> the fact that nobody else has EVER described the problem would indicate to 
BG> me that the problem is not with the modem, but the manner in which it's 
BG> being used.  

PE> I was the first person to document the Spirit double-sending bug,
PE> the first person to encounter it with a Maestro SE 9600, the 
PE> first person to find their modem spewing garbage at them at
PE> 38400 bps when the caller had long pissed off.  No thanks, Bill.

BG> Please yourself then.  I'm trying to help, but you appear to have a 
BG> completely negative attitude towards anything I say or suggest.  And I 

Let's see, so far you've suggested:

1. Supernatural beings have inhabited my unit.
2. My phone line just got incredibly bad, when before it was perfect.
3. Ignore any bugs in the USR, they're all features.

BG> don't believe that you were the first to see those S2 bugs anyway, unless 
BG> you've been in constant contact with every S2 owner in the world (which 
BG> just happens to be slightly bigger than Paul's lounge-room).

Well, first to document it at any rate.  Just like Einstein was
the first person to document the Theory of Relativity, even though
some really bright spark in Ethiopia may have thought of that
thousands of years ago, and just not told anyone.  The Ethiopian
is irrelevant, even if he was first.

PE> Yes, if I save at 57600, and then run my comm port at 57600, everything is 
PE> hunky dory. 

BG> Then what the fuck are you complaining about?  Why anybody would want to 

That's like saying, "After you patched Binkley to fix the Spirit
double-send bug, why the fuck did you still complain about the
Spirit?".  The short answer is, I shouldn't have to work around
their bug, they should fix it.  In BOTH cases.  I never once 
heard you say I should stop bagging the Spirit and MBE because of
that.  Shades of blatant hipocrisy perhaps?

BG> run a modem capable of transferring COMPRESSED files at over 4000cps, on a 
BG> serial port restricted to no more than 3840cps is completely beyond me.

1. I had just loaded a new ROM, and wanted to make the least 
number of changes to my configuration as possible.
2. I had not seen any evidence of >115% transfer rates anyway.
3. I had not even seen any connects >28800.

If that simple logic is beyond you, then so be it.

PE> What I want to do is save my config at 57600, run my com port at 38400, and 
PE> then get the modem to switch the RINGs to 38400 as soon as it gets an AT 
PE> command from me. 

BG> Why?  What possible reason could you have to want to do that?  As far as 
BG> callers are concerned, it makes absolutely NO difference to them at what 
BG> speed your serial port is locked.  None at all.

BG> I've given you the solution.  It's up to you to use it.

Bill, I've been using that workaround since 10 minutes after I
saw the rings producing garbage.  I documented it as a USR
fault.  Sorry that offends you so much.  Pity you never complained
when I did exactly the same thing with the Spirit.  BFN.  Paul.
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