HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Need ARA script fro ZyXEL
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:08:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


Does anyone out there knw if there is an Appletalk Remote Access script
for the ZyXEL 1496E modem. I need one badly.


Thanks,

Josh
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: Eric Hoffmann <ehfm@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Address os supra corporation
Organization: CCS
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:56:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.122824.13296@krk.fi> Joonas Kekoni, joonas@krk.fi
writes:

|> I am told that i will get new roms for my supra free, if tell them
|>my adress and number of my modem, but nobody have told me where
|>i have to tell them. A REGISTERATION CARD WAS NOT INCLUDED, and
|>the selles hasnt either posted it.

This is the latest information I have. You would probably want to call
the Tech Support number and work things out that way.

Supra 
1133 Commercial Way
Albany,  OR   97321

800/727-8772
503/967-9075
503/967-2440  *Tech support
503/926-9370  FAX#
503/967-2444  *BBS
Supratech%Supra.uucp@cs.orst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: richv@hpinddu.cup.hp.com (Rich Van Gaasbeck)
Subject: Cellular Modems
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:50:23 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA.

Is there anything special that you need to do to use a modem over a
cellular phone?  I looked at the data sheet for telebit's CellBlazer
and I couldn't see any difference from their pep modems.

Will any modem work if you are standing still?

Can you use any (error correcting) modem while mobile if you set the S
register that tells how long to wait for a missing carrier to a value
longer than the time it takes to switch cells?  Is the typical default
value too short?

Rich Van Gaasbeck
richv@cup.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: What's a good 14400 modem?? (Intel?)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:59:42 GMT

In article <BtwMLD.AsK@gator.rn.com>, larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) writes:
> 
> >Gak!  Vernon, you ain't no dummy, so something subtle was going on.  We
> >regularly get 3.7kcps+ on SLIP with ka9q and PC-Route with these puppies.
> >They're the best we've tried, and we've tried and tried.
> 
> >Our configs are simple.
> 
> >  AT&F"H3\N3E0Q1&D0&W
> 
> what baud do you lock the DTE at?


Ooops.  Neither of us mentioned that.  
I use 38.4.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com
From: uucpadm@becker.GTS.ORG (Uucp Admins against ATnT)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Worldblazer problem
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:51:07 GMT
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario


WorldBlazer - SA - Version LA5.00W- Active Configuration
 B1  E0  L1  M0  Q2  T   V1  X2  Y0 
&C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &L0 &Q0 &R3 &S2 &T4 &X0 
S000:1   S001=0   S002:255 S003=13  S004=10  S005=8   S006:5   S007:60 
S008=2   S009:10  S010:15  S011:50  S012=50  S018=0   S025=5   S026=1  
S038=0   S041=0   S045=0   S046=0   S047=4   S048=0   S050=0   S051:5  
S056=17  S057=19  S058:0   S059:15  S060=0   S061:0   S062=15  S063=0  
S064:1   S068=255 S069=0   S090=0   S092=0   S093=8   S094=1   S100=0  
S104=0   S105=1   S111=255 S112=1   S151=4   S155=0   S180:1   S181=1  
S183=25  S190=1   S191:6   S253=10  S254=255 S255=255 


This configuration gives mucho garbage upon connect
when it is accessed in answer mode at 2400 bps
(~?~?~?~? etc.), and refuses to provide V.42 error
control if it is offered.


If S180=2 things work OK, but then one is stuck with
the problem of MNP-5 compression if MNP gets negotiated
(which is no good for compressed data like news batches).


Telebit tech support says this doesn't seem to be known
to them previously, and when they tried it on LA5.01W
firmware the same problem also appeared...


-- 
Bruce Becker	Uucp Administration	Toronto, Ont.	Vox: +1 416 699 1868
Internet: uucpadm@becker.gts.org	UUCP: ...!web!becker!uucpadm
"Radish Found With Politician Growing From Taproot" - The Rational Inquisitor
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: aistmain@vntic.msk.su (Dispatcher of AIST-EuroAIST-RELCOM Boris I. Tarakanov)
Subject: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Summary: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Keywords: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Reply-To: aistmain@vntic.msk.su
Organization: AIST-VNTIC INFORMATION NETWORK
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:13:52 +0300

              New cipher-system

 1. When the original information is euciphered every bit is
    treaded and redundancy of this information is absent
 2. The amount of variants of eucipher may be so much great,
    for example n=10**91
 3. The quantity of encipher operations for 1 bit are <=22,
    but decipher operations are <= 9 for case n=10**91
 4. Ecodered file is deciphered in turn bit from the end  of
    the text.

    This new cipher-system may be  used  for  protection  of
    information  from   unauthorized  access  and  for  data
    communications by communication chanels.

    Relation by electronic mail.
From: geise@ticipa.mtc.ti.com (Nick Geise)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Software interface to modems
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:23:16 GMT
Reply-To: geise@ticipa.mtc.ti.com
Organization: Process Automation Center

Looking for books or other sources of information on how to
programatically interface to modems from a PC running DOS or Windows
via RS-232.  Also interested in data compression algorithms typically
used for compressing data.

Please e-mail or follow-up this post.

Thanks,
--
Nick Geise                    Internet:  geise@ticipa.mtc.ti.com
Texas Instruments             TI MSG ID: NLG
PO Box 655012  MS 3635        Voice: (214) 917-2203
Dallas, Tx  75265             PC Drop: PFR1
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Meyer)
Subject: WANTED: 9600 modem 
Summary: WANTED:  9600 baud modem
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:28:23 GMT

I'm looking for a used 9600 modem, reasonably
priced. Send me an offer.
jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Flames off Was( Class 1&2, T.4 T.30 T.etc CCITT)
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:02:09 GMT

al045@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gergely Tapolyai) writes:


>On the other hand I do feel that some things must be available to
>everyone free, or at least for a reasonable price.  We have
>invented, and invent every day so many things that would make
>this great country even better than it is.  Unfortunatelly, large
>companies that might be effected by the pattent/copyright of such
>ideas, buy them and let them collect dust in old basements.
>

If I ever invented something, I'd be certain that the exclusivity of any
sale of the patent was contingent on product(s) being developed for the
market, and on a timely basis.

-JTT
 
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.laptops
From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of the MaxLite 144/PC pocket modem?
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:46:31 GMT

In article <r-bn=m-.wolfgang@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
>hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt) writes:
>: recent tests, ATT has the best 9600 modem in terms of connecting with
>: anybody with the Intel 9600ex second.  Others often communicate well with
>: their "brothers" (same manufact.) but not so well with "strangers."  If
>: you have a particularly site you want to call in mind, you should test
>: drive your new modem before buying it.
>
>I like your idea of testing a new modem, but the suggestion that ATT and
>Intel connect to more other modems than other manufacturers modems seems
>to be based on one single review (PC Magazine). I can name you at least
>three such reviews, where Digicom modems for example placed first among
>several modems, for connecting to more other modems than others.
>(PCWeek).
>
>

oops.  I didn't mean to plug ATT modems, simply relay information about
a potential problem with compatibility.  I have been playing with 9600
for quite a while and it still ain't perfect.  I can never connect at 9600
from my house to my office.  I can drop back to 4800 still using v.42bis
compression and it connects every time.  It seems that 9600 is still
pushing the phone system right to the edge, and I have had mixed results
in connecting at 9600.  Long distance seems better, strange as it seems.

In any case, a test drive is mandatory if you want results.  regardless
of my experiences or those of others.  it seems that every phone system
is different, and you simply must try to connect from the points you will
really be using, not from a store to your office for example....

Bob

-- 
!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !
From: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM (Hans Hrasna)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: How to make modem originate after manu
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:49:18 GMT
Reply-To: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM
Distribution: world
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: castlerock.east.sun.com

In article 16606@pdnfido.fidonet.org, erik@pdnfido.fidonet.org (Erik VanRiper) writes:
>In article <861@silence.princeton.nj.us> jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett) writes:
>>I need to originate dialup calls to an unattended remote modem
>>by first manually dialing the number on a handset and negotiating
>>verbally with an operator.  The call will then ring and the remote
>>modem will answer.  At that point, I need to instruct my modem to
>>begin its negotiation sequence as though it had dialed the call.

>When you hear the other modem start to squeal, enter ATD on your end.  Your
>modem will think that it dialed.  You need to press enter after the ATD, of
>course.

	Hmmm, most modems will give you the error "NO DIALTONE" if you use ATD
unless you set a bit to blind dial... ATXD works with any setting, this works both
on my 16.8 Dual Std. and my UDS v.3225.

			Hans
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: carson@cs.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar)
Subject: Telebit, PEP level 2, and V.FAST
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 01:42:03 GMT
X-Posted-From: shadow.cs.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

As I understand it, the current crop of Telebit modems uses a DSP to
handle the various protocols.  What I'd like to know, is which (if
any) of the current Telebit modems will support PEP level 2 and/or
V.FAST when they become available.  I understand the older modems'
DSPs aren't fast enough, but are the new ones'?


-- 
			    Carson Gaspar
			carson@cs.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: WorldBlazer still locks up with LA5.01 ROMs
Reply-To: nolan@tssi.com
Organization: Tailored Software Services, Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:13:54 GMT

nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan) writes:

>Telebit tech support is aware of it and has offered some revised
>register settings.  I haven't locked up since making the changes, but
>it has only been a day or two.  

It has now been close to a week, and no further lockups.  For the record, and
since several people have asked, here are my register settings:

WorldBlazer - SA - Version LA5.01 - Active Configuration
 B1  E0  L2  M0  P   Q2  V1  X12  Y0 
&C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &L0 &Q0 &R3 &S2 &T4 &X0 
S000:1   S001=0   S002=43  S003=13  S004=10  S005=8   S006=2   S007:60 
S008=2   S009=6   S010=14  S011=70  S012=50  S018=0   S025=5   S026=1  
S038=0   S041:2   S045:255 S046=0   S047=4   S048=0   S050=0   S051:25
S056=17  S057=19  S058:0   S059:15  S060=0   S061:0   S062=15  S063=0  
S064:1   S068:3   S069=0   S090=0   S092:1   S093=8   S094=1   S100=0  
S104=0   S105=1   S111:30  S112=1   S151=4   S155=0   S180=2   S181=1  
S183=25  S190=1   S191:6   S253=10  S254=255 S255=255 

The only change TB suggested that I made was to change &R0 to &R3.  (They also 
suggested changing &S2 to &S0, but I need the current setting.)
---
Michael Nolan, nolan@tssi.com      "Freedom of the press is still alive in    
Tailored Software Services, Inc.    America, at the U. S. Mint"  (Gallagher)   
Lincoln, Nebraska (402) 423-1490
From: Doug_Crompton@mindlink.bc.ca (Doug Crompton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Radio pickup in modem
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:20:28 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Norman Swartz writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <swartz.715109549@sfu.ca>
> Posted: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:32:2
> 
> Org.  : Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
> 
> 
>      I am currently using their Patriot 2400i internal modem.
> Occasionally this modem acts like a miniature radio receiver.
> Although the modem quietly emits voices and music, this
> irritating behavior does not seem otherwise to disrupt the modem.
> Even so, I would like to silence the modem.

Norman,
I had a  similar problem with a Zoom Faxmodem, but the radio signal
seriously affected the ability of my modem to connect to other
computers.  The dealer I bought the modem from (who shall remain
nameless) told me the connect problem was caused by my comm program
(Telix), or by my slow, old XT.  Wrong on both counts!
Solution:  I went down to my local Phone Mart and got a radio
interference filter for phones.  B.C. Tel used to give these away, I've
heard, but now charge about $29.95.  I no longer receive radio stations
on my modem and I don't have connect problems any more.
        Doug
Organization: William Rainey Harper College; Palatine, IL  60067
Date: Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992 15:36:57 CST
From: Steve W Hill <SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Company called RANDOM?

Does anybody out there know where I could contact a company called
Random?  Our college just received some donated equipment which included
two Random Colleague communications laptops.  Unfortunately they came
without manuals, and I need to order one.  There's no address anywhere
on the device.  Email please to SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET
Thanks. -Steve
From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: modem schematics
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 13:10:49 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook) writes:

> Is this really true?  Or is this only true if I manufacture and SELL
> modems for connection to the public switched network?  If I
> make one device and it meets FCC specs, do I really have to register
> and type approve it?  I am thinking this is like building my
> own computer....if I don't make it for sale, and it does not
> generate excessive RFI, I don't have to submit it for part 15
> testing and type approval.

   The phone company has the right to inspect and reject anything that you 
want to plug into their wires, in case it interferes with the operation of the 
public switched telephone network.  If you're mass-producing the things with a 
decent degree of consistency and quality control, they might 'borrow' a number 
of them and approve the model in general.

   Also, here in Canada, consumer safety regulations specify that anything 
that will be plugged into a power outlet must be approved.  CSA approval 
involves donating some of your doohickeys to the Canadian Standards 
Association and waiting for them to announce their conclusion - or announce 
that they haven't reached one and need more of the things for testing.

   One-offs may be inspected in a non-destructive manner by Ontario Hydro for 
a nominal fee (it used to be $50; I don't know what it is now).

   Obviously many home-built devices, although legally bound by these 
regulations, have been plugged in to both power and the telephone net without 
inspection and approval.  I guess that's not much trouble as long as the 
device does not bring itself to the attention of either utility providor! 
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: What's a good 14400 modem?? (Intel?)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:41:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.014327.13420@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
> ...
> i think the common bsd slip actually uses a two byte frame in this
> case -- from slstart() in if_sl.c:
> 
>         /*
>          * The extra FRAME_END will start up a new packet, and thus
>          * will flush any accumulated garbage.  We do this whenever
>          * the line may have been idle for some time.
>          */
>         if (tp->t_outq.c_cc == 0) {
>                 ++sc->sc_bytessent;
>                 (void) putc(FRAME_END, &tp->t_outq);
>         }
> 
> so my earlier caluclation was off by one.


No, as the comment says, the extra delimiter should only be emitted
when the line was previously more or less idle.
Consecutive SLIP frames should have 1-byte each of SLIP "header".

This is what a netsnoop on `ping -s 10` on a SLIP line terminating
about 16 inches from my right knee says:

0002:   len   38   time 21:28:35.799
    ip:     v 4       hl 5      tos 0     len 38    id 19099  off 0
            ttl 255   p icmp    sum 0x65d0
            src rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com      dst dataserv.denver.sgi.com  
    icmp:   type ECHO           code 0    cksum 0x1c66        id 16127
            seq 11   
    00028:                                      2a a4 34 e3              *.4.
    00032:  00 0c 34 f3 08 09                                ..4...

0003:   len   38   time 21:28:35.929
    ip:     v 4       hl 5      tos 0     len 38    id 24932  off 0
            ttl 255   p icmp    sum 0x4f07
            src dataserv.denver.sgi.com   dst rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com     
    icmp:   type ECHOREPLY      code 0    cksum 0x2466        id 16127
            seq 11   
    00028:                                      2a a4 34 e3              *.4.
    00032:  00 0c 34 f3 08 09                                ..4...

The total packet length is 36 bytes excluding SLIP header.
However you want to divide it, that's
  (28 bytes of IP stuff) + (1 byte for SLIP) + (ping command line value)


> |> So you're right that my calculations are a little off.  I don't think
> |> it's worth worrying about.  My inferences of when the modems stop being
> |> able to keep up are not accurate to more than 10%, the modems
> |> themselves vary by more than 10% from moment to moment, and I don't
> |> care about any modem where my error of 37 bytes is 10% or more of the
> |> modem's through-put.
> 
> if you say so.  but i like experimental results to be reproducible by
> others, and hold precision to be a virtue.


Reproducibility is the main reason I report so called "throughput" as I
do.  The numbers are straight from the ping command line.  They do not
require any problematical adjustments.  As I noted recently, I even
ignore the fact that the real throughput value is in some sense twice
the command line value because data is flowing at that rate in both
directions.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: sml@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Steve M Lazarus)
Subject: Zyxel u-1496e for $350
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:03:40 GMT

World-Net Microsystems, Inc.
24172 Christy St.
Fremont, CA 

510 770-1158 (voice)   510 770-1159 (fax)

is selling the the Zyxel U-1496E for $350. This does not include
software or cable. I am getting the Mac software and cable 
for an additonal $50. I assume the IBM pricing is the same. The
price from Zyxel is $469 for the above combination. I don't know
if World-Net does mail orders.


Steve Lazarus                           internet:        sml@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
Loral Western Development Labs          uucp             wdl1.uucp
MS X-60                                 
3200 Zanker Road			America on Line: SteveLaz
PO Box 49041                            (voice)          (408) 473-4203
San Jose, CA  95161                     FAX:             (408) 473-4210
From: Sevo_Stille@f.maus.de (Sevo Stille)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit, PEP level 2, and V.FA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:32:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.11

carson@cs.columbia.edu wrote in <1992Aug24.014203.983@ctr.columbia.edu>:

c>What I'd like to know, is which (if any) of the current Telebit modems will
c>support PEP level 2 and/or V.FAST when they become available.

What do you mean by PEP level 2? The Telebit Worldblazer is using a new
extension to PEP called TurboPEP, and as Telebit has just started selling it a
few months ago, it's very unlikely that any further PEP version will appear
within the next year or two.

TurboPEP is probably the fastest protocol around right now (though I haven't
seen these Motorola Codex v.fast prototypes), and it's certainly the most
reliable highspeed protocol - on bad lines it has more than twice the
throughput of v.32bis, and I've yet to see it lose a connection due to line
noise!

c>I understand the older modems' DSPs aren't fast enough, but are the new
c>ones'?

Well, the Worldblazer is fast enough for TurboPEP, qed. But I doubt that it has
enough DSP power to cope with v.fast (whatever and whenever that will be).

v.fast is appearantly going to be faster than TurboPEP and it will be fdx, if
the CCITT continues the policy that brought us v.32bis, while TurboPEP is
semi-fdx (that is, half duplex with fast, automatic turnaround). If v.fast will
live up to the expectations, it will certainly require far more than the DSP
power needed in the Worldblazer.


I don't suppose that Telebit has built that much unused DSP capacity into the
Worldblazer - indeed I would be rather angry if they made me pay now for
something rather expensive that will be useless for another year or more (when
DSP prices will be considerably lower than now)!

The same will go for another manufacturers - all real claims to v.fast
upgradeability say that this will be done with a major hardware upgrade.

Codex is promising it's customers that their v.fast-draft modem will be updated
to whatever v.fast might be, even if this means swapping the entire device.

USR has put a exchangeable DSP board into their latest models - and has
announced that they will sell v.fast plug-ins (more or less at the price of a
new modem) as soon as the standard is out.

Some Zyxel resellers have claimed that the new + models will be software
upgradeable to v.fast, but I haven't heard that from Zyxel themselves, and the
DSP power of the + models, which is far less than in the Telebit Worldblazer,
makes it extremely unlikely that it will be able to run v.fast without a major
hardware upgrade.

bye Sevo
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems