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From: wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
Subject: Re: Need Info on Gateway Telepath
Keywords: Gateway Telepath
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:23:24 GMT

In article <axa12.37.720927482@po.cwru.edu> axa12@po.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:
>From: axa12@po.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
>Subject: Re: Need Info on Gateway Telepath
>Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:38:03 GMT
>Keywords: Gateway Telepath

>In article <1992Nov5.010800.18242@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> harllee@ece.cmu.edu (Peter S. Harllee) writes:
>>
>>My father is considering buying the Gateway Telepath 2000 modem.  I know that 
>>the first version of this modem was incredibly buggy, but I haven't seen much
>>about how the new version of it is.  My father would definately appreciate any
>>info about it, good and bad.

>We have used three of the new Telepaths extensively since July, and have 
>been satisfied with their performance.  Here are the bugs that are yet to be 
>resolved with the modem:

>a) It will not work with the application MS-Kermit.  Note that this does not 
>mean that you cannot use the Kermit file transfer protocol from another 
>application.  In fact I have routinely used Kermit from within XTALK for 
>Windows.
>b) The modem will not send a break.  To send a break you have to escape into 
>command state and issue a "AT\B".  I do not know how important it is to 
>you.  On out campus terminal server the escape command is not "break" but 
>is "^^x", so this does not bother me at all.

>Now for the plus points:
>a) The fax has worked perfectly for sending and receiving high-speed faxes, 
>even over international connections
>b) The modem is not too sensitive to line-noise.  I have terrible telephone 
>lines in my apartment and seldom have trouble making high-speed connections, 
>even long-distance connections.

I have to disagree with this. I had 2 Telepaths and neither would connect
reliably at speed greater than 2400 baud with my phone lines. My USR modem
works fine with my lines. The FAX did connect at high speeds and worked fine.
Gateway didn't give me any hassles about returning the modems, so you could
buy one to test with your lines.

>c) We have been using the Telepath for high-speed SLIP connections and they 
>have been working well.  In fact I am using one right now.

>Ashok
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                             Ashok Aiyar
>                     Department of Biochemistry
>                         CWRU Medical School
>                          axa12@po.cwru.edu
>----------------------------------------------------------------------

Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)
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From: mikey@db.erau.edu (Mike P. Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: CompuCom
Date: 6 Nov 1992 10:03:27 -0500
Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: norma.db.erau.edu

csc2mxs@cabell.vcu.edu (Marko Siladin) writes:

>Does anyboy know what happened to CompuCom? I tried to get
>an upgrade on my BIOS, but when I called their 800 number
>some other company answered. They also received a lot of
>phone calls but couldn't help me in finding the new number.

CompuCom USA has gone out of business.  I was REALLY pissed, to say the least,
when I heard it, because I purchased one of the unfinished STAR's, and now
am basically screwed...

Anyway, on the lighter side... CompuCom Europe is still going strong, and
they are sending ROM upgrades to those of us poor American folk that are
sitting here wondering what happened.  I had the address right up till the
time that my hard drive crashed...  SOMEBODY out there must have it
somewhere.  I have also heard that there is someone in this country that
keeps in contact w/ CompuCom Europe and gets all the ROM upgrades and will
burn proms for ya if you send him a couple.  I had his address too... :^)

-Mike
mikey@db.erau.edu
From: pvc00@cd.amdahl.com (Peter Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Comments on Turbo Modem Plus from Complete PC?
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:25:01 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


   I would like to know if anyone has had any experience with a modem from
Complete PC called Turbo Modem Plus?  It has V32, V32bis, V42, V42bis,
plus FAX (for $299 from a store here in Sunnyvale).  I would like to what
chip set it uses, and what problems (if any) people have encountered.  It
sounds like good price, but I would like to know if this modem is any good.

Thanks, in advance.

-- 
+------------------------+---------------------------+
| Peter Chow             |  Amdahl Corporation       |
| pvc00@cd.amdahl.com    |  1250 East Arques Avenue  |
| Phone : (408)737-5562  |  P.O. Box 3470 M/S 270    |
|   FAX : (408)746-7000  |  Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 | 
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: RFI messing up modem communications--remedies?
Keywords: RFI, noise
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:35:37 GMT

I am happy to report that my RFI nightmare is over.

First, I installed a ferrite bead at the modem input.

Second, I didn't take no from the phone company for an answer.  I called
them again, and they were quite sympathetic this time.  They tested the
line on their end and said it was "unbalanced" (whatever that means).
They had a serviceperson out here right away who fixed the line and
applied a line filter to boot.

Third, we had arranged that our old phone line remain active and that
both lines share the same (the old) phone number--so that if the phone
rang at one place, it would ring at the other.  Speculation has it
that this arrangement was creating one giant (two-mile long) antenna.
I had them disconnect the old line.  

The happy result:  The problem has vanished!

I'm a bit surprised, because the radio transmitter is right across the
street!

All in all, I'm really pretty lucky.  I've come to know just how
intractable this sort of problem can be.  I would have been devastated
if it had not been solved.

Thanks goes to all the people who e-mailed their advice.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago




Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: UART 16550?
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:02:15 GMT


Would someone be willing to tell me exactly what it is and what it does?

Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Seek modem info -- Codex 5208-R (Motorola)
From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:06:13 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

Greetings.

I've recently acquired a Codex (Motorola) 5208-R modem,
vintage 1984, without any accompanying manuals/spec-sheets/etc.

Can someone share with me what I need to know to put this modem 
to good use -- or at least point me to information sources.

Oodles of jumpers on the two PCBoards -- no apparent response
to Hayes AT commands -- local loopback fine (both digital & analog).

Many thanks in advance.  E-mail replies preferred.

Fred E.J. Linton  Wesleyan U. Math. Dept.  649 Sci. Tower  Middletown, CT 06459
E-mail:  <FLINTON@eagle.Wesleyan.EDU>     ( or  <fejlinton@{att|mci}mail.com> )
Tel.:         + 1 203 776 2210 (home)      or     + 1 203 347 9411 x2249 (work)
  
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From: rkimball@athena.qualcomm.com (Robert Kimball)
Subject: ZyXEL ADPCM voice files
Summary: Any code to expand ZyXEL ADPCM files
Keywords: ZyXEL ADPCM
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:07:34 GMT

I would like some code to expand ZyXEL ADPCM voice files into linear data.
I got the file from ZyXEL describing the file and data format and wrote
some code to do the translation but all I have been able to get so far
is noise.  Has anyone had any success with this?  Specifically I would
like to play a recorded sample on my Amiga's internal sound device.

rkimball@qualcomm.com
From: 1012breuckma@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: HELP - modem drops carrier when extention off hooks
Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:39:26 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: 1012breuckma@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Nov10.011052.7791@nosc.mil>, medin@manta.nosc.mil (Ted Medin) writes:
>
> Well the title says it all (i think). I have fooled with s10 but no
>banana :-(. Didnt have this problem with the multitech 2400 but now the
>viva 14.4 drops carrier when a phone extention goes off hook. 
> Any ideas?

You can purchase from Radio Shack, Target, etc., a device intended for use
with answering machines.  The original use was to cut off the answering
machine if you picked up any telephone after the machine had already
answered the call.  In this case, you need one on each telephone that
causes problems, and it will cut the telephone off if the modem (or any 
other phone, for that matter) is already using the line.

Another option is to wire the phone "downstream" of the modem.  That
assumes that your modem has a telephone jack that is disconnected when
the modem has the line off-hook.  Some modems have a phone jack that is
just in parallel with the input jack, and will not work in this regard.

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: Gateway's e-mail address
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:08:48 GMT

sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes:

>> 	So the question is ...  Does anyone know Gateway's e-mail address??

>	Sure -- they don't have one. They *do* however have a tech support
>BBS: 1-605-232-2109.

Uhhh, wrong, please play again.  Gateway is available on America
Online via gateway@aol.com, as has been mentioned here plenty of times.

Mike
--
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From: tnixon@hayes.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: What's CCITT approved?
Date: 13 Nov 92 11:49:19 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <1992Nov12.025739.4873@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>,
yenchee@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Yeng-Chee Su) writes: 

>    I've a stupid question.  

The only stupid question is one that is not asked.  This is not a
stupid question. 

> The local dealer of US Robotics told me that the
> USR is the only modem in Taiwan which is CCITT approved.  But someone told me
> there is no anything called CCITT approved, only standard compatible.  Which
> one is true?  

"Someone" is right.  The CCITT does not "approve" anything.  
Manufacturers can claim compliance to CCITT standards.  The 
Tiawanese government (like most governments) probably requires 
modems to abide by certain regulations to be connected to your 
telephone network, but I am absolutely positive that USR is not the 
only modem with such approval.

The dealer just doesn't know what he's talking about.

> By the way, can anyone buy the CCITT's recommandation?  Or only
> members of CCITT can? 

Anyone can buy CCITT Recommendations.  They are probably available 
through your national standards organization.  They're also 
available through the International Telecommunications Union in 
Geneva, and through several outlets in the USA.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Illegal Sales from Mark Margolis
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:50:43 GMT

In article <1d20omINNlqd@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> valhert@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (valhert) writes:
>
>I always believe that the rule was not to have commerrcial
>sales on the usenet.  How can we prevent this illegal 
>activity from continuing?  This guy is using the guise of
>a college student to legitatize this sales.

Why bother?  If he offers good equipment at a reasonable price, then his
posts are most certainly welcome!  If you don't like it, you can always
killfile him...
-- 
Laws are for other people.
hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
From: chuck@chadal.Gwinnett.COM (Chuck Daley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: BISYNCH in PCs?
Keywords: BISYNCH PC HELP
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:23:35 GMT

>    1.) Recommenad a board that I can put in the PC that understands BISYNCH?
>        I am writing software (u-soft  and C++) that will communicate with
>        the board, so the programmable interface is important.  Cheap would
>        be nice
> 
>    2.) provide ome advice on what I need in the way of modems?
> 
>    3.) Recommend  a good BISYNCH primer.  3rd grade level
>        would be nice and probably appropriate.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
>                                               Jerry Pendleton
Let me see if I can help you out here....

The first place I would suggest you call is someone like Cleo
Communications.  Last I knew, they do boards and APIs for most protocols 
and BSC 3270 is something I tested with them a couple of years ago.  
Sorry, I don't have the phone number readily available (it's at work).

Regarding modems, it will of course depend in part on those being used at 
the host.  The basic requirement is that it support SYNCHRONOUS 
transmission.  Speeds and duplex characteristics will depend in part on 
how the whole thing gets configured in the end and the limitations of 
either the host or the pc board.

I haven't seen anything recently that is dedicated to BSC3270.  Most of 
the James Martin books that pertain to data communications do a fair job 
of covering BISYNC but seem to go into real detail about 3270.  Maybe the 
people you eventully get hardware from can suggest something.  
Alternatively, if all else fails, I may be able to type something for you 
that covers my experience with it.

Hope this helps.

Chuck

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: puma <puma@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! How to switch from data to voice ??
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:32:45 GMT

zzang@stat.ufl.edu (zzang) writes:
   ...
> the call. I wonder if there is any
> Hays modem command which allows me
> to switch from data to voice without
> DISCONNECT the data line, so I can go
> back when I finish the call.
> I have call-waiting and 3rd-party call
> services on my phone.
> 
Unfortunatelly, you can't usually talk on a line to one party
and still expect the modem to maintain a connection to a computer
on the 'other half' of a call-waiting call.
Certainly, it's possible to do that by adjusting the 'loss-of-
carrier-to-hangup-time' parameter on the modems on BOTH ends of
the call.  But in most cases, if you answer the voice call both
modems will disconnect due to loss of carrier.  In fact, on many
telephone systems the 'call-waiting-beep' is enough of a disruption
to cause YOUR modem (and sometimes the one on the other end) to
disconnect.  Increasing the time mentioned above is used sometimes
to prevent a disconnect and ignore the voice call, but you will
still get an error burst (unless the modem is an error-correcting
one).   
In any case, you really can't take the voice call and still 
maintain the data call.

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
Subject: Re: Supra to Supra periodic 5 second pause
Keywords: Supra pause
Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:45:59 GMT

Sounds like your modems do a retrain every now and then, but I can't
be sure. The H ROMs display RT during a retrain, but I never saw that
message when using the C ROM. Try turning off automatic retrain (%E0
or %G0, can't remember which one).

--
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Department of Computer Science    \\ //   will achieve the improbable.
Helsinki University of Technology  \X/     --- Camillo S{rs
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit T1000 in Japan
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:47:31 GMT

gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:

>In article <3169@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>>
>>>While the Telebit modems available in Japan are more expensive than
>>>their U.S. equivalents, they've been approved by the Japanese telephone
>>>authorities and are supported by the local dealer.
>>>
>>A few years ago, a T2500 from Swire (see below) cost 248,000 yen
>>(US$2,000). A friend of mine is sysadmining a UNIX system under a
>>Mombusho grant (National Education Ministry) and they got two
>>approved T2500s, paid the full price and could get no support from
>>the distributer. From what he has told me the distributor is just
>>that, a distributor. Support?  Uhhh.... That's what c.d.m. is for,
>>isn't it? :-)

>Really?  The dealer would not support the product?  I've been told by the
>higher-ups that dealers don't get the contract until they agree to support
>the product.  Any other arrangement isn't practical for Telebit or the
>customer unless Telebit opens offices in every country where the modems
>are approved.

In case you haven't been here what is said ('tatemae') and what is
really meant or really happens ('honne') have almost no relationship
in Japan. In this case, according to what my friend said (and he
shall always remain nameless as social harmony is perhaps the most
important thing here) it's not that they wouldn't, it was more that
they knew less about the product than he did. 

>I'll pass your comments to the folks who know what's supposed to be
>happening with our overseas dealers.  I don't want to leave our Japan
>customers hanging without any support.

Where have you been? Did you miss a bunch of traffic in this
newsgroup? 

Telebit has only a limited number of modems approved for Japan, the
prices from its sole authorized distributer are more than double
what the equivalent goes for in the U.S., and support is minimal to
non-existant. From what I've read in c.d.m. it's the same in the
U.K. and perhaps other countries as well. 

In the case of Japan, some organizations need Telebits for the PEP
so they pay the freight and deal with the problems themselves.  In
the case of other modem like USRobotics, they aren't approved, and
can't be purchased here (tatemae): Yet if you dial around the
country you find <gasp> that many BBSs are running USRobotics (honne). 

So don't worry about Telebit's support. Everything is OK. Quoting
what your higher-ups say is fine (tatemae) :-)

Dave

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From: sswiss@milo.NoDak.EDU (Steve Swiss)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Intel SatisFAXtion 400
Date: 9 Nov 1992 20:49:45 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

All,
  I was wondering, most of the discussion here is mostly between Supra,
ZyXel, Zoom, and Boca, but no discussion on the Intel modems. I have
been reading this conference for some time and I have yet to see much
discussion on the Intel modems. I did a little bit of research and I
am planning on purchasing a 14,400 bps fax modem in the next few days
and have pretty much made up my mind (I think). I have been debating
very seriously on the Intel SatisFAXtion 400. I run a BBS and this 
modem would be running on it at Com 3, IRQ 5. I just want to know 
peoples opinion of thing before I buy it. 
 
My questions are:
1) How does this 'jumperless' installation work, software defined or
   autosensing or what?
2) Is the internal buffering as good as a NS16550A UART?
3) Does its quick connect option really "quick connect"?
4) What about "soft" updates for the ROM, how does it work?
5) Does it really require a 286 or higher machine?
6) Is the manual complete and understandable for someone who is 
   somewhat technical?
 
Someone who runs one a BBS please reply or send me email please about 
how they like, dislike it, ect. BTW, in all the looking I have done, no
one has said a bad thing about this modem yet.
 
-Steve
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Data: The Blazing Icicle BBS  (701) 839-0181  mail to sysop
From: dkw@wolferts.ka.sub.org (Dr. Klaus Wolferts)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: European BUSY tone detection (was: SupraFax v32bis and ..)
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 15:43:34 MEZ
Organization: Ing'Buro f. EDV + Elektronik, D-7500 Karlsruhe 31

ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs) writes:

> In <KONTIO.92Nov5172332@zelda.hut.fi> kontio@niksula.hut.fi (Ari J Kontiainen
> 
> >In article <JESPER.92Nov4210330@elixir.elixir.e.kth.se> jesper@elixir.e.kth.
> 
> >   I got the same sympthoms when I "upgraded" my modem from 1.2C to 1.2H. Th
> >   BUSY detect used to work in the old ROM's, so I guess it's a feature. 8^)
> 
> >I really hope, that it is a feature, because I want the better busy 
> >detection back (on Finnish telephone lines)!  
> 
> Couldn't agree more. With the C ROMs I could get through to HUT quite
> easily, as the digital lines provide "instant" redial, i.e. no analog
> CRR-CRRR-CRRR in between. The BUSY reply came up almost instantly, so
> my redialer ended up dialling the two series in VERY rapid succession.
> 
> Now, with the H ROMs, the delay before BUSY detection is very long.
> Sometimes the central even stops sounding the busy sound -> NO CARRIER
> after almost a minute of waiting. :(

Thats not only a problem of 'Finnish busy' or SupraFax but of other 
(european?) countries and modem brands too. I had a Best 2400 plus which 
didn't get the busy signal in Germany and now, as I have a Digicom Scout+ 
V32bis FaxModem since several weeks I get similiar experiences. In most
cases in Data mode it doesn't recognize busy signals. In Fax mode, it 
often gets the busy. 

Is that a problem of european phone systems and their busy signals?

I have learned from an engineer at the german telecom approval authority
that many modems they get for an approval have difficulties recognizing 
the busy signal, most of them because the signal level is too low.

Klaus


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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: mgoodman@nyx.cs.du.edu (mack goodman)
Subject: Microcom Mac/2400 Modem ** I need the settings Please//
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:47:40 GMT


I need the DIP switch settings for this modem.  Could someone 
email me these settings?

Thanks so much for you help.

Mack
mdgoodma@crdec8.apgea.army.mil

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