Bill Bailey wrote in a message to Any and all:
 BB> Ok I give up.  I have a Optima V.34 since it was a V.FC. 
 BB> Every thing worked  fine until a few days ago.  Now it
 BB> refuses to link up with a USR V.34 .  When  I call the
 BB> modems connect and I get a message that modem protocol was
 BB> filtered  but the front ends, both binkley, never talk to
 BB> each other.  When the other  BBS calls me the modems never
 BB> sync.  The init string I am using the the  original the
 BB> Souvestre put in this echo when the V.FC first came out. 
 BB> Does  any one have a better init string, with USRs, for use
 BB> with the Optima and  binkley? 
I have the same model.
When I dial out to a USR modem, regardless of the type, 14.4 through v.e, I 
set S37=15 in Binkley.cfg
Works well for me.
Stopped the connect problems I had with USR modems 
Alan
Team OS/2,
Fidonet 1:107/101, ibmNET 40:4371/101, OS2NET 80:135/15
internet: alan.rackmill@roost.metronj.org, alanrack@ix.netcom.com
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