On Wed 30 Oct at 20:09 Gary Thorpe (3:633/364{at}fidonet) wrote to All:

 GT> G'day all,
 GT>          I read a few of the messages here and thought some 
 GT> of you might know the answer to this question...

 GT>    I used to have trouble with drop outs on a particular BBS 
 GT> (Not this one ), which I could "kind of" solve by 
 GT> extending the ats10 string to a value of 50 (5secs).  I 
 GT> bought a Hayes Accura Message Modem and :
 GT>    1. The Telix software comes up with an ERROR if I 
 GT> try to change ATS10.
 GT>    2. I don't have the problem anymore !

 GT>    I was using an Avtek Flashmodem 28.8 previously, and it 
 GT> seems ok on all but this 1 BBS ( which is running 2 x 
 GT> Maestros )

 GT>    I wonder if anyone out there can explain to me why the 
 GT> difference ?

The Hayes was using a Rockwell chipset, similar to the Maestro, whereas the
Avtek Flashmodem used a Motorola chipset with some bad default settings.

 GT> Is the Hayes THAT much better ?

Well, maybe it had better default settings...

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