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From: ISAACSON@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU (RON ISAACSON)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Voice Mail Systems: Info Please!
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:02:57 GMT
Organization: The Internet

A question for you all. I've seen a number of ads recently for
things like "The Complete Communicator", which do modem and fax
and voice mail, all in one. Well, here's my question.

A friend of mine runs a small real estate firm here in Mass. She
has a fax machine (you know, one of those old kinds you have to
put on a table :>), a modem (on the same line as the fax), and a
special outside service she pays to do voice mail. Faxing and
modem use (the modem is a 2400) is not a real problem, but the
voice mail, which she got recently for all her employees and
cannot live without now, is a problem. The way it's set up now,
when the last person leaves the office they turn on the forwarding
to the voice mail company's number. (Their "tree mailbox".) When
somebody calls, they get to push a button and leave someone a
message. When the message is left, the service beeps her on her
beeper, giving her the number of messages she has waiting on the
display of the beeper. She can call in from anywhere and get them.

The problems: 1. This service is EXTREMELY expensive; her expenses
have gone way up since she started having to pay the voice mail
carrier. 2. The block of exchanges owned by the carrier are in a
different town, and are long distance to her; her local phone bill
has gone up by $150 since she started having to forward calls to
this place.

Now, the question. Like I said, I've seen a number of these combo
packages around. What I'm looking for is one that has a modem
and fax and voice mail all in one. The voice mail is the most
important feature. It has to take a large number of mailboxes,
be very easy to activate/deactivate, have support for a beeper
type setup (or even be able to perform an event when a call comes
in -- I could whip up a program to do the actual calling), and
provide remote maintenance (call in and get messages, change your
outgoing message, etc.). It also has to be "competitively priced";
I would set a limit of $500, because after a few months you've
made that back, but she can't afford to shell out anything more.
The card must also be for the IBM (8- or 16-bit card is OK, she's
got a 386) and, if possible, should include Windows software to
make things easier for her.

Thanks for your help... Please either reply on this list or send
info to me at the address below. Thanks a lot!

 - Ron Isaacson, Isaacson@Husc3.Harvard.Edu

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: ltran@netcom.com (Linh C Tran)
Subject: Re: PPI Happy with your 9600SA ? Practicle Peripherals)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:07:51 GMT


: Are y'all happy with your Practicle Peripherals 9600SA's ? How does this 
: brand measure up against the big time names ?

I am happy with it.  It takes a while to set it up.  They have good technical 
support.  You can call them on the weekend and late at night.  You can't say 
the same for other modem companies.

Linh Tran	ltran@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: sycheng@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Hsiao-Yang Cheng)
Subject: Re: why does sz break ?
Reply-To: sycheng@csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Chiao Tung U., Taiwan, ROC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:17:03 GMT

golando s gathings (gsgathin@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU) wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install rz and sz on a sparc station to allow
> tranfers via a dial-in thru a DCA box or a xyplex terminal
> server.  I compile the source code using the 'bsd' switch
> when I try to to download the file using sz on the host side
> and a pc on the local side , it immediately aborts the xfer
>   I have also used the 'sz -TT filename ' command to see


  Please try "sz -e <filename>"
  
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From: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas) 
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: RE: GATEWAY TELEPATH MODE
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas) 

mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:

 JN> [The Gateway Telepath] is a full V.32bis/V.42bis 14,400 bps data
 JN> modem with Class 1 & 2 fax capability as well.  It comes bundled
 JN> with Crosstalk for Windows, Qmodem and WinFax PRO software.

 > Aren't most fax machines these days Class 3 capable, or am I
 > thinking of something else.  What's the difference?

You're thinking of Group 3, which is the fax protocol that is
supported by the Telepath.  Class 1 & 2 refers to the fax modem
software commands.

Best regards,
John
                                                                                                                       
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Transfer Station BBS (510) 837-4610 & 837-5591 (V.32bis both lines)|
| Danville, California, USA. 400+ MB Files & FREE public Internet Access |
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From: starfish@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Scout+ and 16550AF
Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:22:55 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


I just acquired a brand new Scout+ fax modem. The box says it uses a
16550, but all the diagnostic programs I have says it uses a 16550AF.

Can anyone confirm this?

-Alan Waterman
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: Can you lock DTE at 76,800 bps? Is that a valid speed?
Organization: Netcom
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:27:48 GMT

Larry Snyder (larry@trauma.rn.com) wrote:

: For example, I get 160-180ms with 56 byte pings to my Netblazer on the
: USR modems, but 190-205ms with the WB modems (v.32bis/v.42bis).  Both
: numbers are obviously with no traffic on the leased line..

Here is the modem which I recommend for latency critical applications: 
the Digicom 9624LE+ series. It uses a very fast AD/DA. A reliable tester 
found the ping latency to be 163 msec between a pair of modems on Silicon 
Graphics workstations.

More information is available at ftp.rahul.net /pub/wolfgang/9624LE+.


-- 
   _________________________________________________________________________
   Wolfgang Henke     Data lanes not car pool lanes      wolfgang@netcom.com
From: tnzj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Apex? modems for thinkpads
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:14:49 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Hi;

        I have heard tell that a company called "Apex" is making internal
high speed modems for thinkpad 700s. Has anyone got the address or number
of this company or any experience with their modems?

                                        Thanks....  Mark
From: Paul O. Lazarev <paul@ars.udmurtia.su>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem and serial card programming
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:08:03 +0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Scientific & Production Firm ARSENAL
Reply-To: paul@ars.udmurtia.su

Hi!

>           We're looking for public free documentation and program in
>   C-language for programming serial cards and modems. Can anyone let
>   us know anything about it? Thanks.
 Which system-based  soft need you?
 I have some my MS-DOS-based soft for programming
serial ports & modems (initialization, callup, callin, terminal
with modem state monitoring modules).
 If you are interesting this, tell me which archiver you use
(arj, zip, pak, or zoo).

                Paul.




Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: "silent" Digicom Scout+
Organization: Netcom
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:02:34 GMT

Bradley D. Keister (keister@poincare.phys.cmu.edu) wrote:
: I had posted earlier a notice about a problem I've had with my Scout+
: occasionally becoming "silent," not responding to any AT command, or
: to +++, i.e., just a blank screen.  The Scout+ is installed in a
: Gateway 386sx.  Someone else noted that their Gateway had this problem
: (with another brand modem), and a workaround was to type AT commands
: in upper case.  I've tried this and it doesn't help.  What does help
: is to reboot the machine (CTRL-ALT-DEL, not the reset button).  I'm
: curious about this because I've been told that rebooting shouldn't
: affect the modem.  My question is therefore: what actually happens to
: the COM ports and/or the modem during reboot?  Something must get
: reset, because, when the modem falls silent, nothing else works.


I have experimented some, and it seems that I can reproduce this
problem. This may or may not related to your problem, though.

The Scout+ is factory set to the COM2 serial port. This port uses the 
IRQ3 interrupt and the 02F8 base address. Just inserting it into my test 
machine, an ATT6300, and starting Qmodem and then using AT&F gets the 
modem running.

However, I also have a Mouse Systems serial mouse card and this card can
be set to a wide variety of interrupts and base addresses. I can set it
to IRQ3 and the modem works fine (there is no mouse attached). I can
also set it to any other interrupt without problems. The same with the
base address. BUT when I select 02F8 on this card, too, the modem seems
to freeze. No characters are echoed. It acts on dial commands, though
and I can dial out, connect, but I just dont see anything on the screen.

Again, this may not be your problem, but since I have come across this
report often enough by now, I thought posting it might help alleviate
problems.


-- 
   _________________________________________________________________________
   Wolfgang Henke     Data lanes not car pool lanes      wolfgang@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: BAUER@ausseninstitut.nov.tu-graz.ac.at (Lars Bauer)
Subject: Connect two modems without telephone connection?
Reply-To: bauer@ausseninstitut.nov.tu-graz.ac.at
Priority:     normal
X-Mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4).
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:45:47 +0000

How can I connect two modems direct?
Especially I need informations about: how can I let "ring" it on the
other modem without using a home telephone exchange or something
different?


Regards


Lars___________________________________________________________________
Lars Bauer                 | bauer@ausseninstitut.nov.tu-graz.ac.at
Ausseninstitut der TU Graz | Tel.:  (++43)316/873-8395
Lessingstrasse 27          | Fax.:  (++43)316/873-8397
A-8010 Graz                |
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: hashem@netcom.com (Basil Hashem)
Subject: Re: zyxel help for an idiot (me!) 
Reply-To: hashem@netcom.com (Basil Hashem) 
Organization: Netcom 
Distribution: usa 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:04:43 GMT


In article <1jpnfjINNfh0@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong) writes:
= Note that suggested list for a U-1496E model is $469.  Of course, dealers may
= sell for less.
I just got my ZyXEL U-1496E for $310 from SI Services, Inc. (215)675-7507.
This is a small outfit and only accepts C.O.D. as a first purchase.

Enjoy,

-- 
"I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous"
Basil Hashem
basil@netcom.com
KPMG Peat Marwick
From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR modems..
Date: 20 Jan 93 10:04:18 CST
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

In article <1imhahINNqch@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ab016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
(Scotty Meredith) writes:
>
>In a previous article, Steven_Lam@mindlink.bc.ca (Steven Lam) says:
>
>>I notice that there isn't too many messages on here concerning US Robotics
>>products.  Especially the Sporster and Courier v.32bis fax and dual standard
>>fax products.  Is there anybody out there who use them?  Any comments or
>>critisim?  I sell USR modems and would like to find out people's opinion on
>>them.  BTW, I have a Dual Standard with fax and am VERY happy with it.
>>
>>
>
>I also, have a DS w/fax and LOVE it.  Worth evry penny!!
>
>
>I have *NO* problems connecting with systems ran by Supra, Intel, Hayes or
>USR modems whatsoever.  It is a GODSEND!!
>
>-- 


Agreed.. I have a 14.4K Sportster modem, at it rocks.  I just dial, it handles
all the rest.. negotiates the absolute best possible conditions for compression
and data rate.. Helluva modem for $320..



        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
        |o|              I think, therefore I Amiga.              |=|
        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
        | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
        |  dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us   | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: 5250 emulation?
From: bks@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:48:00 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

Does anyone know of any communications software that supports 5250 (as/400)
emulation? Thanks in advance.
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Dallas Fax communication rates
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:08:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I've had a Dallas Fax internal at home for several months and just put a
Dallas Fax Pro Plus external on my Unix workstation.  I thought that
this would give me good transfer rates, but in fact the transfer rates
are low.  The problem seems to be that the systems seem to take long
coffee breaks which really slow things down.  When I'm simply logged on
and interacting I get good transfer speeds (namely fast scrolling and
all that) except that at intervals everything stops for a while.  I
don't know whether this is a buffer problem, a glitch in the modem
hardware, or something to do with the way that DF expects the computer
to implement the compression algorithm.

Here are the details, including a comparison with another system.  I
don't know what modems are on the other system, but in both cases the
host modems connect at 14.4K and support v4.2bis/v3.2bis.  I get the
same times for both uploads and downloads on each system, so I haven't
distinguished between them.  In both cases the client is a 386DX-40 with
a DF internal running ProComm Plus and using Zmodem for transfers.  The
SGI host is a 4D/25 running IRIX 4.0.5 and the other is a Sun 4.

                        SGI+DF external              Sun+?
19K text file           1200 cps                     2700 cps
31K GIF file             730 cps                     1500 cps

For both files the transfer rate between two DF modems is less than half
of what I am getting on the other system!

When I start the transfers the rate appears to be quite high, often over
3000 cps, but it drops precipitously due to the long pauses.  If anyone
has any ideas on how to tune the system for continuous transfers it
would be a great help.

I do notice a lot of disk access on the PC during downloads, but since
the uploads are equally slow and I am using identical software for both
tests, that does not seem to explain the difference.
-- 
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P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Digicom Scout+ problems
From: <DMTSI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 23 Jan 1993 23:34:05 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Hi.

 I'd like to warn people buying Digicom Scout+ internal modems. These modems
don't work properly with 7 bits wordlength. When you set it to 7 bits and, for
example, even parity, the modem will respond E71 and M71 with equal probability
i.e. sometimes it misinterprets the parity for Mark instead of Even. Digicom is
working on the problem.
-------
Dmitry Teytelman ( dmtsi@cunyvm.cuny.edu or dmtsi@panix.com )
The College of Staten Island, NY
From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Comment on Supra 14.4
Date: 23 Jan 93 03:16:58 GMT
Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind

In article <1319.70.uupcb@digund.uucp> loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) writes:
>KD>Unfortunately, ZyXEL doesn't seem that interested in this sort of
>  >arrangement.  Anyone in Chicago who would be willing to loan me one?
>
>Buy it mail order; you've got a 30 day "Evaluation period" in which
>Federal Law guarantees you the right to return for a full refund.

Sez who?

Zyxel advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee, but your wording implies that
this applies to any random mail-order purchase.  What "federal law" are you
talking about?

--
Alan Denney      aland@informix.com      {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland

  Smith and Wesson: the Ultimate Point-and-Click User Interface.
From: keister@poincare.phys.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: "silent" Digicom Scout+
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:39:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: poincare.9301220439.AA08672
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I had posted earlier a notice about a problem I've had with my Scout+
occasionally becoming "silent," not responding to any AT command, or
to +++, i.e., just a blank screen.  The Scout+ is installed in a
Gateway 386sx.  Someone else noted that their Gateway had this problem
(with another brand modem), and a workaround was to type AT commands
in upper case.  I've tried this and it doesn't help.  What does help
is to reboot the machine (CTRL-ALT-DEL, not the reset button).  I'm
curious about this because I've been told that rebooting shouldn't
affect the modem.  My question is therefore: what actually happens to
the COM ports and/or the modem during reboot?  Something must get
reset, because, when the modem falls silent, nothing else works.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
From: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore)
Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
Followup-To: alt.security 
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:04:24 GMT

In article <1k6ootINNs6q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>johnt@ee.ubc.ca (John Jay G. Tanlimco) writes:
>
>>If you call someone, don't they have a right to know who you are?  If you 
>>insist on having privacy, use a public pay phone.
>
>
>Why do they have that right? Why in the world do most countries have
>strict laws, and the telephone companies strict rules ablut tracing
Phone Companies control big $, that's why.
>privacy. I do not want to hand out my telephone number to any random
>person I phone. 
Then don't phone random persons.


-- 
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TRW SEDD, DH5/2453
P.O. Box 6213                Phone:    (310)764-9163
Carson, CA 90746             Fax:      (310)764-3946
From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayse code to set Auto answer.
Keywords: Hayse
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:32:40 GMT
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ

Im sorry if this is somesortof FAQ, but I don't have a manual for my modem.
I just wanted the code because I just put Unix on my PC and I would like to
run the modem as an input terminal. I have never used my modem for anything
before this except just dialing out.
Sorry if this seems to be a trivial question but I don't know much about the
modem, just how to dial out using atdt... As I said, I don't have any manuals
for it or I could have checked there.
Thanks,
				Ron
From: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Comment on Supra 14.4
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:26:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 

  >>Buy it mail order; you've got a 30 day "Evaluation period" in which
  >>Federal Law guarantees you the right to return for a full refund.

CP>Zyxel advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee, but your wording implies tha
  >this applies to any random mail-order purchase.  What "federal law" are you
  >talking about?

EVERYBODY advertises a 30 day return policy.  That's because it's
codified in some Consumer Protection Act - (maybe 1973?)

Loki Trickster
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Re: has ANYONE gotten Zmodem in TELIX to UPload OK to UNIX rz?
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:36:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.052337.13911@netcom.com> pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard  
) writes:
:-> Has ANYONE gotten a Zmodem upload from TELIX (or maybe some other PC
:-> based terminal program) to work with a Unix rz program as receiver?
:-> 

From what I remember, in order to use rz, you must type "rz" at your UNIX  
prompt, then on your PC, use the program's send command and for the  
filename, type "sz <filename>" where <filename> is the name of the file.

This means that you need rz and sz in you UNIX directory.
Hope this helps!

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From: pbhoskin@gsbphd.uchicago.edu (Bill Hoskins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: UDS V.32 init string needed
Keywords: UDS v.32 init
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:39:07 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I just got a UDS v.32 modem without any documentation and am trying to
get it going.  I've managed to connect to one v.32bis modem and do
get the message "connect 9600", but then I get thousands of random
characters back.  To me, that says that the problem is not something
like parity, but instead some modem setting.  On another trial to a different
v.32bis modem, the connection was never made.  The modem stayed in training
mode for 30 seconds and then hung up.  I've tried all 4 factory settings 
(the option shown on the LCD display), and none of them work any better.  

This modem really is called model V.32.  It was made the last week of 1987, and
is a large box.  It is revision c.  

Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed?  I'd like to try things like
disabling error checking, but don't know the command.

Bill Hoskins
Univ of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Telebit Qblazer
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:37:07 -0600

Anyone have the BBS # for Telebit? I would greatly appreciate it if 
someone has it.  I know Look in the Manual but I could not find a phone 
# that would answer correctly
Thanks in advance.
Leo