-=>> Quoting mark lewis to John McAlpin <=-
 ml>> what happens if you replace the ZOOM???
 JM> I was actually going to bring my old Optima 28.8 to his place
 JM> and try it but never got around to it (lack of time and all).
 JM> Though, he seems to have fixed the problem.  He switched from
 JM> one compilation of Adept to another called Orion and now the
 JM> modems recover from CRCs.  Hmmmm, I wonder if it's the coding
 JM> in Orion or if it has a different init string?
it's likely the coding... as an example, i have some callers here that cannot 
use the internal ZMODEM in my bbs package. i have three or four other ZMODEM 
packages configured on the system just because of this. i have one guy that 
cannot use any of them except Texas Zmodem... why? i don't know but he can 
send a receive with no problems with that one and the others are just asking 
for trouble with his system. on the other hand, i have a few here that can 
use any of them except Texas Zmodem... don't ask me why... i just give the a 
varity and let them find the one that works for them...
 ml>> sporsters are definitely not bbs grade in my book... had quite
 ml>> a few problems with them too
 JM> I ran our local UUCP gateway for two years (very heavy
 JM> traffic) on a 28.8 and a 33.6 Sportster and have been
 JM> tickled with them as well. Other than having to switch
 JM> one of them off-n-on every three months or so they
 JM> were great.
my major problem with them (and several rockwell based) is that they "loose" 
the ability to hear the ling ring... at least they don't report it to my 
software. neither does the RI (Ring Indicate) line show any change... i've 4 
or 5 of the things here, different models and flavors and they all exhibit 
the same problem... i had to turn them off and back on _several_ times a 
day... the only way i knew when they were goofed up was if i had a ringer on 
the line and heard it ringing without also hearing the modem respond... t'was 
a real PITA to say the least... i tried all sorts of initstrings and settings 
to no avail... yes, they had the correct port speed saved in the NVRAM slots. 
in fact, both NVRAM slots were identicle. about the only thing i could figure 
was that they were somehow stuffing up after receiving so many AT (hey, are 
you still there?) prods from my mailer... it sends an AT to them every 5 
minutes or so... i even tried having it send ATZ and AT&F1 with no change in 
how they were acting...
 ml>> if only rockwell would build
 ml>> their modems like they do their space stuff...
 JM> Just what I want.  My modem dragging my computer up into
 JM> space.  Swell.  ;-)
hhahahahaha, yeah, but their space stuff is at least reliable and not full of 
bugs and incompatibilities with other stuff >
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