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rc> Also, I'd suggest you reduce the FIFO buffer size. By setting it
rc> at 14, you can only tolerate two characters before the buffer
rc> will overflow. Try 8 instead. 
bs> Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the FIFO buffer only
bs> affected the quality of data exchange once a connection has been
bs> established. As I have 99.99% perfect data transfers with no
bs> overruns or data retries, I have always used 14 in order to get
bs> the best throughput available. I regularly connect at 31,200
bs> and my download speed is always around 3260 cps with no errors
bs> ... so I don't see why I would want to reduce the FIFO buffer
bs> size unless I misunderstand how it works. My major problem is
bs> trying to get DCE speed to display and I have given up trying to
bs> get the speaker to perform adequately. 
I understand that.  It was just a suggestion.  If you're having no
trouble with the buffer set to 14, leave it.  Should you run into
problems, though, you might consider lowering it.
I can't imagine why the DTE speed is not being returned with a W1
selection.  W2 should return the DTE speed, but not the error
correction information and so on.  Getting that information is not
critical to the comm program operation, though, so you might be
better off using W2.
It certainly sounds like the modem is wonked, though. :-(
bs> Many thanks for all your suggestions.
Well, it didn't seem to help much. :-)
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 3 Mar 18:01 
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