Subj: ACCURA 28.8 RE-DIALS, 01 of 01
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My first attempt on this one got clipped between here & there, so 
I had re-sent it; heard nothing back, tried again over last weekend 
(and can reduce the problem to mainly the re-dials now that I have 
apparently confirmed a conflict between SMARTDRV & the 16550), but 
not having heard back in quite some time, I'm curious if any of the 
follow ups are making it all the way to your node.
-=> Quoting Hayes Support to Bill Dawson <=-
 HS> but could also be due to 'noise' on the line which can send the modem 
 HS> into long retrains.  If you are having problems making the initial 
 HS> connection, this is usually related to conditions on the phone line, 
 HS> especially if you are seeing problems more often when connecting to 
 HS> particular systems more so than with others.
 
 BD>There never is any fading, noise, scratchiness, or interference heard
 BD>when connected by voice on that same line..
Although inability to connect easily remains a problem, following a 
hint from a sysop locally, I tried disengaging the caching for the 
partition used in telecomm & reduced CRC error messages 90%, so now 
I'm using another cache utility (Ncache2 from Nortons 8).
 HS> There rarely is, it usually has more to do with available 'bandwidth'
 HS> than actual 'noise' on the line.
 
As of yesterday, I called in (again) to SW Bell in this regard, to 
see about cleaning things up.. there was no immediate improvement 
when the difficulties escalated a month ago, and I called them at 
that time, but much more recently I have noted "some" reduction in 
frequency of these symptoms. 
 
 HS> If you want something very basic to initialize the modem, you might 
 HS> want to use AT&F&C1&D2 to wake it up.
 
 BD>> Although I still wonder where the very first query that I uploaded
 BD>> to your support BBS disappeared to..
 HS> You should have gotten a response on the BBS within 1-2 business days.
 HS> What section did you leave it in?
 
AFAIK, same place I left the one that did get answered.. gotta say 
that the overall setup at the support BBS is fairly awkward compared 
to privately run BBS' and after uploading the pre-written query, the 
offer to "SAVE" might not have been seen, but I would have been look-
ing for it -- this go-round online, I have two years of experience 
at Fido messaging & BBS-usage (added to prior period of online time 
I have a total of well over four years of using BBS's now).
 
 BD>> ... but there was an S Register setting for bad lines in there 
 BD>> somewhere.
 BD>(In that particular regard, I cannot determine from Qmodem's manual
 BD>how/where that S Register code is tucked into the terminal software
 HS> (Continued to next message)
NOPE!  Same thing happened this time as last, when you exceeded the 
line count your software or mailer program would send as one post -- 
any second part never got here!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -> Bill <- - - - - - - - - - - - -
... Ho!  Ha!  Guard!  Turn!  Parry!  Dodge!  Spin!  Thrust!  "Argh!"
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