On Tuesday, October 08 1996, John Piper wrote to All ...

 JP> I wanted to experiment with something tonight; namely, forcing an HST
 JP> connect with David Drummond's Courier. My FidoNet mailer allows me to
 JP> configure it so that extra modem commands will be issued if it finds a
 JP> certain node number or nodelist flag in the system it's dialling.

 JP> I entered ATB1| for David's node address so that said command would be
 JP> issued prior to dialling his system. However, I achieved a 31.2k V.34
 JP> connection; no HST. From what I can gather, I would need to disable
 JP> V.34, V.FC, V.32terbo et al. in order to force HST.

I tried using AT&N9 B1 S56=192 S34=128 and this seemed to work.
However, the verbal result code reported was CONNECT
16800/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS. I believe that the modems actually connected
using HST, since it was a quick handshake with no V.34 "boink
boink" during the connection phase.

Comments?

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

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