On Thursday, December 05 1996, Russell Brooks wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> I discovered that my Courier would not answer any inbound calls. Several
 JP> tests with my other line and mobile proved that there was a definite
 JP> problem. The auto-answer LED on my Courier's Anyone have any explanation
 JP> for this odd behaviour?

 RB> When you see Egyption instead on a good clean "RING" it is usually
 RB> because your port speed is not locked at the same rate as your modem's
 RB> ATI5 speed indicates is saved in the NVRAM.

 RB> Set ALL your software up at 38400, 57600, 115200 (what ever turns you
 RB> on) LOCK it, Go into terminal mode set your modem to the speed you
 RB> want to run at. Now do an AT&W.

 RB> Problem solved, no more garbage

 RB> Something may have changed one of you software settings before, so
 RB> that it was different to what the modem is saved at.

Thanks Russ. Your answer, Dave's and Bill's are all similar, so it must
have been a case of exactly what you describe above.

I did shift my port speed up to 115200 several weeks ago. File transfers
were fine, but one of my BBS doors was not happy with the port speed. I
found that shifting the port speed back to 57600 fixed that little problem.

I had no idea that such a change would affect my modem.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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