Once apon a time Bill Grimsley said, 'Re: problems' to Simon Byrnand...

 SB> Aha! That explains a lot, I'm not going mad after all! :-)

 BG> Of course, we only have your word for that.  :)

You have my word, for what it is worth ;)

 BG> That's odd, as I had a couple of 1414-VQHs for a while, and they never
 BG> failed to connect at LAPM/V42bis, regardless of the brand of remote

Well I dont have any trouble getting V42BIS to any other modem I've
called yet, just that one that, annoyingly, is on the primary node of the
BBS I run ;-) (Murphy in action)

Incidentally, my modem is a 1414-VQH-L, and having seen both that, and
the 1414-VQH, I can tell you that they are quite different, with different
board layout, different chips etc, and mine has extra jumpers....supposedly
for setting a DMA channel for voice software, although I doubt if Bitware
supports it...also I think there is both a Cirrus Logic (mine) and AT&T
version of both the 1414-VQH and 1414-VQH-L, which again, would be quite
different despite having the same model number....why they cant keep model
numbers unique, is beyond me....

 BG> modem.  Sounds like your Dynalink V.FC could do with an EPROM update
 BG> (don't hold your breath waiting for Askey to provide one though),

Who are Askey? Some crowd over there in Ozz?

 BG> particularly as it likely has the terribly buggy early-model 04BC
 BG> Rockwell chipset.

Very likely, this modem has "been around" and was apparently one of the
first V.FC modems that came into NZ.....is the model number of the
chipset printed on the chips? I'll have a look and see what it is...

 BG> That's the problem with interconnectivity; similar Rockwells tend to
 BG> connect fine with each other, whilst those with say AT&T or TI
 BG> chipsets may have to perform a bit of judicious tweaking in order to
 BG> enjoy the same degree of reliability when calling some Rockwell-based

I've certainly observed that with the various combinations of modems I've
setup in the past. Now you mention it, I've never seen anyone with a
Rockwell based modem having trouble connecting to that Dynalink V.FC :)

 SB> Oh, and all 3 modems are internal...

 BG> That shouldn't make any difference, unless they're being used on
 BG> Pentium machines with Triton I chipsets.

Oh, why is that?

Regards,
Simon

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