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From: stmfarqu@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Michael J. Farquharson)
Subject: Satisfied Supra User Requires Assistance!!!!!!!
Originator: stmfarqu@atlas.cs.upei.ca
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:57:19 GMT

Hi.  I have a quick question.  I run a BBS with Maximus 2.01 and I have a 
new SupraFAXModem... (By the way:  IT WORKS GREAT!!!)... with one small
exception.

        When people log on at 2400 baud, which most do, the BBS thinks that
they're logged on at 38400.  I can only assume that this is the modem to
computer speed.  I have tried several times to use the W2 option but when
someone connects at 2400 all they get on their end is a screen full of ascii
characters (most of which are Greek Alpha's apparently).  Can anyone suggest
a course of action for me to take?  I wouldn't worry about it at all except
that the BBS allows users to download huge files which they don't have time
left to download because it thinks they're logged on at 38.4k.

        My init string is:  AT&F2E0M0V1S0=0

BTW:  For the person who will, inevitably, say "Why don't you just store
that in the modem using the AT&Wn command?"... I tried it... It won't work
at all... even if I use the EXACT same init string as above, the same result
(GARBAGE!) follows.

        However, I would like to say that my modem has worked FLAWLESSLY.
I admit that I am not exactly a heavy duty user, but I have called my share
of LD sites with high speed modems and have had no problems what-so-ever.
This is a GOOD modem.  If you're in the market... buy it!

===============================================================================
stmfarqu@upei.ca       |  Sysop:  Starbase 1 BBS, Sherwood, P.E.I., Canada
Michael Farquharson    |  Running Maximus 2.01wb with Supra 14.4k
UPEI Engineering       |  Phone:  (902)-628-1230
===============================================================================
From: Denny.Chuang@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Denny Chuang)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Modem and FAX Calls in same line. Questions ....
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:13:37 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


    I'm getting a PM14400FXSA modem from Practical Peripherial. If I intend
to have the line for BBS use (24hours a day) could I still receive FAX calls
at the same line?  If I set up the TSR Fax program at the bootup and then goes
to my BBS (PCBoard14.5a) will my FAX program still be active in the background?

	If you have a solution for my problem or know anything about it please 
let me know.

Thank you!
denny.chuang@152.2.22.80
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From: gtoal@cursci.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Summary of prices of several *external* V32bis modems:
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:33:05 GMT
Reply-To: Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938


I'm looking for an external V32bis modem and don't care about DOS
software to drive it.  Not too fussy about fax.  Here are the USA
prices I've gleaned from Computer Shopper & PC Sources.

If anyone wants to update this with better prices and more modems,
please do.

I'm really looking for something round the $250 mark, so if you
know of any bargains from reliable suppliers, let me know please.

April		379 (pocket)	April
Boca		299		Harmony
Cardinal	349		USA Flex
Dallas		259		Atel
Infotel		256 (9.6K fax)	Midwest
Infotel		269 (14.4K fax)	Midwest
Multitech	389		Computer Discount Warehouse
Practical P.	405		Action
Quicktel	389 (no fax)	SBF
Supra		309		Computability
Twincom		299		H&J Elec
USR		339		Omnidata
Ultimate	319		USA Flex
Zoom		299		Midwest

(The only personal experience I've had of any of these is:  twincom - worked
fine every day since I got it 6 months ago.  Dallas - dead within a week.
Can't vouch for any of the others.)

Graham
From: ohd@ornl.gov (OLIVE D H)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: ugh, more BocaModem problems... (or not...)
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:57:34 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In article <Bsw4nL.6Cp@animal.gcs.co.nz> lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.102759.17311@mits.mdata.fi> larry@mits.mdata.fi (Lasse Hero) writes:
>>lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu) writes:
>>
>>>About the 16550A I have heard from a local distributor that there is new
>>>firmware coming from Rockwell (by way of 1.25 ROMS) that will partially
>>>solve this problem. Rather than have a fifo, the firmware will buffer
>>>data so that if the PC cannot service the interrupt fast enough, it will
>>>delay sending to the UART (or something like that - I did not quite understand
>>>the explanation). Anyway it's about 3-4 weeks off so I will wait and see.
>>
>>Do you happen to know if there is new firmware coming for the 
>>external modems too? (I don't know if there is even need for such,
>>just curious)
>>
>>-- 
>>larry@mits.mdata.fi    "You don't have to tell me nothing!"
>
>It wouldn't need the firmware to take care of overrun problems I would guess
>since your external modem would use the serial card in the PC which would
>(might) have a 16550A.. But the fax problems which exist in 1.03 would need
>to be addressed I presume.
>
>Laurence Chiu
>

I'd like to change out my 16540 UART and go with a 16550A but what is involved
in this?  Is it as simple as pulling the old one out and sticking the new one
in?  Where do you find a 16550A for sale and how much is it?  I called my
local Electronics store and they do not carry them.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
Subject: More Gateway Telepath problems
Keywords: gateway modem frustration
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:48:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.230117.2492@midway.uchicago.edu> ace3@quads.uchicago.
edu(Tony 'LLama' Acero) writes:
>From: ace3@quads.uchicago.edu (Tony 'LLama' Acero)
>Subject: Re: Please help with gateway modem!!!!!
>Keywords: Frustration, heartburn, high blood pressure, rip-off
>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:01:17 GMT
>In article <1992Aug24.215506.23872@nmsu.edu> jsalcido@nmsu.edu (Jason
Salcido) writes:
>>
>>
>>I just got my Gateway 2000 modem and have yet to get it to work.  All I get
is  
>>garbage anytime I connect to anything.  Anyway my real question is should I 
>>forget the GW2000 modem, get my $200 back, add $70 or so and get a TWINCOM 
>>14.4 data/fax modem (external).  I have heard that externals are better than
>>internals.  Anyone know much about this modem?  Opinions for/against this
>>are really needed!  Please e-mail at jsalcido@scf.nmsu.edu or post back
>>here.  
>>
>>
>>Jason
>My first Telepath appeared via 2nd day air (only 6 1/2 mo. late)
>and refused to acknowledge that I had a dial tone.  I talked with
>technical support and they sent me another one 10 days later (they
>were still fulfilling backorders or would've been sent next day) I
>received my present modem -- and it works flawlessly.
>In spite of spilling oceans of ink acknowledging the customer
>service problems, they continue.  If technical support hadn't been
>so wonderful (knowledgeable, understanding, apologetic), I doubt I
>would ever have ordered from them again; as it is I can no longer
>recommend them unreservedly as I had in the past.
>So, Jason, call technical support.  If you can get through, they
>will take care of you.
>tony acero
>ace3@quads.uchicago.edu

I just returned my second TelePath modem (they were dated 7/29/92 & 8/4/92)
and have asked for my money back. Both modems acted identically, they would
not connect reliably at high speeds. Sometimes they would connect, but
the AT%Q command reported signal quality was very low. They worked fine 
at 2400 baud, and the FAX worked at 9600 baud.

They would never connect to the local BBS that I call most often, so they 
were useless to me.

Gateway tech support was very helpful and seemed pretty knowledgeable
compared to most tech support I have dealt with, but they did not have
any suggestions that worked.

Gateway insists that these modems work well for almost everyone, but I 
think they have trouble with the phone lines in some areas (many other 
modems using the Rockwell chipsets also seem to have these problems). 
I did try the modem at work as well as at home (with a different phone 
system) and it did not correct the problems. A borrowed USR HST worked 
fine in both places.

Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan)
Subject: WorldBlazer still locks up with LA5.01 ROMs
Reply-To: nolan@tssi.com
Organization: Tailored Software Services, Inc.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:06:41 GMT

The WorldBlazer modem apparently still locks up occasionally with the new 
LA5.01 ROM chips in it, because one of mine did so last night.  When this
happens, the ONLY way to get the modem working again is to power it off and
on again, the T/D switch is non-functional too.  (Interestingly enough, there 
wasn't even a uugetty process active for that modem line once it hung.)
---
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Tailored Software Services, Inc.    America, at the U. S. Mint"  (Gallagher)   
Lincoln, Nebraska (402) 423-1490  
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: vladimir@intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic)
Subject: Re: Usr Dual Connect PEP machines HELP!!
Organization: Intrepid Technology, Inc.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 20:18:02 GMT
Keywords: PEP Help

> Australian approved Usr Dual, having problems connecting to NetComm(Australian)
> PEP machines.
> 
> Any Help or Advice appreciated....
> 
> Mad Mal...


Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't PEP Telebit's proprietary standard?

	- Vladimir
	- vladimir@intrepid.com

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From: dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Supra email address
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:22:15 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice


I tried to email Supra at "supra@supra.uucp" without success (bounced
saying "supra not known at uucp") .... anyone know of a better path
that might work ?

-- 
David Clunie (dclunie@itd.adelaide.edu.au)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal)
Subject: Re: NetFax & ZyXEL U-1496E ... are they compatible???
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:39:30 GMT
Reply-To: uri@watson.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: Ether...

In article <1992Aug27.094518.15764@leland.Stanford.EDU>, buc@leland.stanford.edu (Robert Richards) writes:
|> I have Netfax 3.2.1 on a SPARCstation.  NetFax seems to run fine but
|> does not get far when it starts talking to the ZyXEL modem.
|> 
|> Has anyone used NetFax with a ZyXEL?

Well, it appears that NetFax has two rather bad design
deficiencies:

	1) Heavily centered on Everfax modem (who uses
	   that stuff these days, except for museums?).

	2) Based on assumption that you're rich and silly
	   enough to dedicate the whole serial port and
	   the modem to fax ONLY. 

Also, ZyXEL had some problems with Class 2 Fax commands
implementation.  I was able to transmit multi-page docs
with NetFax-2.1 and ZyXEL ROMs 4.05 and 4.08. Soon I'll
get their current ROMs (is it 5.01 ?)  and will be able 
to tell more...

NetFax uses "+FDT=...." to communicate transmission
parameters to the modem. I found that "+FDCC=....."
does it much better... Also there's something to do
with modem returning OK instead of 0 sometimes. And
at certain occasions the modem returns  less,  than
NetFax expects...  Most of the tinkering is done on
libfax/class2protocol.c and faxsend/faxsnd.c files.


|> Do I need a special cable for SPARC <-> ZyXEL?

No, of course not. Just a standard, normal RS-232, or whatever
it's called - serial cable...
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Subject: State of USR's product line...
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:41:34 GMT

Howdy,
  I haven't been following USR's modem lineup for the last little while.
Recently, I read (in passing) that there's a 16.8Kbps USR as well as
fax capabilities been added to some of their modems. So, what is USR's
current modem lineup? My understanding of the situation is this:

	Dual Standards -> V.32bis + 16.8Kbps ?
	V.32bis <-- any changes to this? Fax?
	VHST -> 16.8Kbps ?


George
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom)
Subject: leased line (?) modem questions
Organization: KLIC
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:52:56 GMT



1)  Are there any good technical books on telephone local loop characteristics?

2)  Is there anything that describes the various levels of service (leased
line, 3002, Type C conditioned, and so forth ) that are typically available?

3)  Anticipating (1), I have seen some numbers for inductance, capacitance, and
resistance per mile of #26 copper pair.  Doing some calculations, it looks
like one can shove 100Kbps, half duplex, through a 5 mile twisted pair
(50V P-P in, 50mV P-P out, into a 100 ohm impedance).  I am told I can get
such a hard line installed to another site off the same switching office.
Are there special modems that can drive such a line?  Where do you look for
them?

Keith
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: babyduck@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tim Chen)
Subject: Re: Intel 400 Problemo!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:33:21 GMT

>market.  However, it seems to have trouble connecting with other modems.  It
>may be because it takes too long to connect, even at 2400 bps.  They say it has
>think of to enable certain options but nothing seems to work.  They do give you
>a big long AT BLAH BLAH BLAH command to bring it as close to a stripped down
>2400, but who wants to type all that stuff in just to configure the modem to
>call one place, then change it again when calling another?
>
>   My friend bought the Gateway Telepath modem for me for almost half the price
>of the Intel modem, and the Gateway modem has given me NO trouble at all.
>
>   What in the heck is going on?  Is the Intel modem a piece of junk?

To answer your final question... maybe! :)  I have seen lots of complaints
about the Intel 400 and I am interested since I was at one point considering
selling my old Satisfaxtion to get me a new one.  Fortunately one of my friends
in Asia is a beta tester for intel's new products and he has been extremely 
dissapointed with all the new Intel Satisfaxtions except the 100.  They have
shown continuous problems connecting at extreme high speeds with other modems,
faxes, either with two of the same or different modems.  I am not saying that
they are bad products but they don't seem to be able to perform up to their
spec line.  I have heard that they are withdrawing them from the Asian market
but I do not know if these rumors are true. 

But there seem to be a few happy people out there, and that's great, but for
now I'll stick with my old RELIABLE Satisfaxtion and get a high speed modem 
elsewhere in till Intel get's it's act together to give consumers a workable
product that does what it's supposed to... easily and without too much hassle.

The above is just my opinion... Email me if you have your compliments/complaint
s of Intel's line of new Satisfaxtions... :)

Tim

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@rahul.net (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: Digicom Scout Plus Bug, Feature or Operator Error??
Organization: a2i network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:59:55 GMT

danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) writes:
:      My one gripe so far with the Digicom Scout Plus is the
: documentation.  They should include a chapter describing practical
: applications situations.

There is a file /pub/wolfgang/scout.txt available which has some info of
installing the Scout+ on a PC, Mac and Sun. anon ftp to ftp.rahul.net to
retrieve it. It also has the register settings for calling into known
bad line conditions, like Moskow. If you have some other 'typical
installation situations' in mind, please send email and I will include
them in a revision.


--
Wolfgang Henke <wolfgang@rahul.net>
From: mruth@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Mike Thomas Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Supra Help!!!
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:34:52 GMT
Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity


   I have a Supra 14.4 v32bis, and I currently run a BBS on an IBM Pc. 
I have no trouble with file transfers at 2400, but at 9600+, people can 
download okay, but they can not upload at all.  Does anyone have any idea
what the problem might be?  Any help would be *much* appreciated.  

Thanks,
Mike
From: jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: How to make modem originate after manually dialing
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:19:28 GMT
Organization: Access, Inc.

In article <861@silence.princeton.nj.us>, I asked how to make a
modem go online and begin its negotiation sequence as though it
had dialed a call, but after the call has been manually dialed
with a handset.  Several folks suggested ATO, ATD and ATH1.  I
had already tried those and none worked.  ATD is the one which
should work, but it doesn't because it normally waits for
dialtone before proceeding.

The answer is to dial the call, then type ATXD<return> and hang
up the handset as soon as the call begins ringing.

The secret, which is well protected by most of the modem manuals
I have on hand, is that the X command is badly mislabelled.
Controlling result codes (at least in the case of DIALTONE) is
only a side effect of what the command really does, which is to
control whether or not the D command waits for dialtone.

	...jay
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem Price List.
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:07:16 +1700
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

The September 1992 Edition of the Computer Shopper has a nice list of all types
of modems, prices, etc.  With a company list following.
From: l9ux@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: USR Courier price any good?
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:25:44 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Is $531 plus tax a good price for a USR Courier v.32 bis?

-Matt
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: T1 lines & Modems
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:59:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug28.135916.9183
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

schumway@enigma1.COM (J. Schumway) writes:

>This may perhaps be a very beginner question, but.... can anyone
>tell me about what exactly T1 lines are, and what it takes to connect
>a modem & PC up to such a line? The only thing I know of T1's is that it
>is a way to have multi-lines on one number, which would be a useful
>thing. What requirements/equiptment is  involved? 

A "normal phone line is analog. A T-1 is *digital*. You'd need several
thousand dollars of equipment to split the T-1 into "normal" phone
lines, and you'd be paying a small fortune for the T-1. 

When conerted to digital, a "normal" phone line is about 56 kbps.
T.1 is 1.5 Mbps. That's roughly *25* phone lines. And you need
interface gear that isn't cheap (in essence you need a digital PBX).

If all you want is to be able to have multiple calls inbound on
what appears to the caller to be the same number, talk to your phone
company about "trunk hunting". There are several different names for
this service (another name is "call forwarding on busy"). In any case, 
tell them that you want several phone lines, and you want them set up 
so that if someone calls the first number and it is busy, they get
automatically passed on to the other numbers. They only get a busy
signal if *none* of the lines are free.

-- 
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From: girardi@rniil.rni.sub.org (Norbert J. Girardi)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: v.25bis?
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:41:46 GMT
Organization: House of the German Squaredance Freaks

darrell@cse.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) writes:

> Reading through my MultiTech manual I see there's a v.25bis mode.
> It doesn't look terribly exciting, but I wonder what it's all about.
> Do folks in Europe *have* to use it?  What's all this about a
> "forbidden list"?  In France if a number gets on the list it
> stays there forever.  As far as I can see there's no command to
> take it off the list.  Does this mean I have to get a
> new PROM if I want the number off the list?
>
> Curious.
>
> DL

I don't know noting about modems in France.
In Germany one couldn't buy an "approved" modem doing Hayes AT commands
until a few years ago. But this restriction is gone. ( fortunately )
All approved modems I know of do have V.25bis in addition to Hayes.

About the "forbidden" list. It is not really a "forbidden" list, but rather
a "dead" list. If a connection fails a certain number of times
( 12 with my Racal-Datacom ) in sequence, it is considerated "dead".

Unforunately even a busy line counts as failed. If you set your UUCICO
to redial your feed every 10 minutes if it's busy and it does not succeed
within 2 hours it will go to the the "dead" list.
Annoying isn't it :-(

The modem refuses to call a "dead" number until you cycle power.
So, you don't have to get a new eprom, but you better check your system
at least every other day to make sure that none of your feeds went to
the "dead" list.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: bash@tware.com (Paul Bash)
Subject: Re: My buddies at USR
Organization: Techware Design, Boulder, Colorado.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:54:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.223503.18134@gandalf.ca> jmclaugh@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Jim Mclaughlin) writes:
>I just got off the phone with US Robotics about getting my dual
>standard upgraded.

[horror story deleted]

In all fairness, it sounds like they are swamped. The time or two I've had
to call USR tech support, things were much better than you portray. There is, 
of course, never an excuse for indifferent attitudes toward customers. 

>
>It looks like I'll be selling my USR and looking for something else....
>Does anyone have any suggestions for companies that have rational people
>in their customer service departments?
>
> 

At all levels of the company I've dealt with, even when they were swamped
with Loyalty Pays, Telebit has never been less than pleasant to deal with.
Their pricing isn't so different from USR's, their modems work well and 
Telebit Tech Support is second to none.   

-- 
Paul Bash                                                   Techware Design 
bash@tware.com                                              Boulder, CO  U.S.A.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems