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to: Bill Grimsley
from: David Drummond
date: 1995-04-10 06:53:48
subject: USR sucks

* On Apr 09 23:09 Bill Grimsley wrote to Paul Edwards

PE>> Got my third bad USR connect today (At 19200 bps with David
PE>> again, same thing, it hung up on me).  I tried again at
PE>> 14400 and it worked.  BFN.  Paul.

 BG> Easy to blame the USR, but their early problems related to V.FC, 
 BG> not V.32terbo, which both modems should have implemented 
 BG> correctly, as it's certainly been around long enough.  Nothing in 
 BG> USR_MODEMS about failed V.32ter connects either.  Can you get 
 BG> David to issue an ATI6 and ATI11 immediately after the next 
 BG> failed call, if at all possible?  The results should tell him 
 BG> exactly where the fault lies, and given the choice between the 
 BG> Digicom and the USR being faulty, I know where I'd be placing the 
 BG> blame.

The Spirit doesn't do retrains.  One user reckoned it was more stable if he
set his com port to 115,200

 BG> Incidentally, David Drummond tells me that he has around half a 
 BG> dozen 19200 callers (Digicoms, presumably), and not one of them 
 BG> has given the slightest bit of trouble with his Courier.  Austel 
 BG> approved too.  Very strange.

Not that many ringing at 19200 V.32t any more.  I don't have online games
and for some reason they (games) are attractive to SMI users :-)

David
 

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