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From: kva@ltses.kiae.su (Kalmykov V.A.)
Subject: HELP OPTIMA 24,96 /power level/!!
Reply-To: kva@ltses.kiae.su
Organization: KIAE
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 07:04:27 +0300

   Hi all!
  Who experimented with OPTIMA 24,96 - what means jumpers JP2,JP3 on a board?
  How increase power level on a switch lines /S63,hard,soft or new firmware?/
    Standard -10dbm  leased line mode in OPTIMA 24 S63= transmitt level in dbm.
    OPTIMA 96 power level=?

     Thank's  advance!
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From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Zxyel/Supra
Date: 16 Sep 92 03:14:43 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <poorman.716597469@convex.convex.com> poorman@convex.com (Peter Poorman) writes:
>In <BuMoy3.IIn@wsrcc.com> wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes:
>
>>In all seriousness - Supra's customer support just sucks.  I have been
>>trying to get an updated set of eproms from them for 6 months now.
>
>I can't agree with this comment.  I faxed Supra a problem report, and I
>got a call back in less than two hours.  The person who called was very
>knowledgeable, and took all the time I needed to ensure that my problem
>was resolved.  A number of other netters have posted about similar, positive
>experiences.  This experience contrasts rather sharply with the awful
>treatment I got from another vendor of cheap modems.

Same here. I use email to reach Supra's technical support and I usually get a
response back in about 24 hours.  I have always been satisfied with the
responses.

>
>I wouldn't describe a delay in a product upgrade as poor customer support.
>(I'd call it lots of other bad things, tho...)
>
>-- Pete Poorman
>   poorman@convex.com


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From: Petty@ralvm29.VNET.IBM.COM (Jack Petty)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:44:22 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,biz.comp.telebit
Subject: Re: PEP vs. V.32bis w/ V.42bis for international connections
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
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Wolfgang Henke writes:
>
>If you do it with a V.32/V.32bis modem, then consider those speeds which
>require the least signal-to-noise. V.32 at a fallback speed of 4800 bps
>requires only 16 dbm or so, less than other speeds or protocols.
>
I find 7200 bps more robust against some impairments than 4800 bps so
I recommend trying 7200 bps before 4800 if the modem offers 7200.
(The reason why 7200 can be more robust is because it has trellis coding
which 4800 bps does not).

Jack Petty
From: cybapunk@hovel.welly.gen.nz (Phil Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Supra Result Codes
Keywords: Burp.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:17:38 +1200
Distribution: World
Organization: The Hovel Bulletin Board System

hbj@engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson) writes:

> jwaleke@tcedge.mi.org (Jim Waleke) writes:
> 
> >I am having a problem.  It seems my supra v.32bis doesn't have a CONNECT 144
> >result code.  I need the modem to send the connect codes in number form to. 
> >There is a result code for every speed except 14400.  
> 
> Try initializing with S95=3.  Yours is probably reporting the DTE (default)
> rate instead of the DCE rate.

ATW2 will report the DCE rate as CONNECT xxxxx

> Bernard Johnson
> hbj@engr.uark.edu   I do not work for Supra, I'm just a DISpleased customer.

I don't either, but I'm a happy customer.  So there.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: NUVO 14.4k Won't connect!
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 19:32:08 GMT

In <18tkasINNeu9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Brad Stone writes:

>I recently bought a NUVO fax modem w/V.32, V.32bis, V.42, V.42bis
>and both fax 1 and 2. I can't get my modem to connect to ANYTHING!

>   I can't tell if it is my INIT strings or what, but I would really
>appreciate any help as I got a FANTASTIC price on the thing and I really
>don't want to have to send the thing back.

I bought a Nuvo 14,400IFX last week.  I had no problems connecting to anything.
Have you changed the init string in memory?  Are you (or is your comm software)
adding any commands before dialing?  I took the defaults, and changed only the
following:
             ATL0&C1&D2
which sets the speaker to low volume (that damn thing is LOUD!) and ensures
hang-up after disconnection.  You may want to do an AT&V check to see what
your current config is as opposed to the defaults.  Try to make them match if
you can--at least initially.  Then write it back into memory with the command
AT&W0.  If your modem initializes to AT&Y0, then the configuration in memory
0 will load as your current configuration (AT&Y1 would make memory 1 your
default at power-on).

I had problems at first, but that was because the first one I bought had no
manual with it.  When I got the manual, everything fell into place for me.

Tim Irvin  j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
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From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Twincom Modems
Date: 12 Sep 92 07:14:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: lub001.1992Sep13.001444.1540
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <1992Sep8.023802.9895@smop.fr.mugnet.org>, tomazi@smop.fr.mugnet.org (Georges A. Tomazi) writes:







> I use since three months a Twincom 144/DF for my BBS and it's very nice modem.
> I never try the fax features but a friend have many problems with the software
> "Quick Link II" included. Be careful when you order it, the commercial
> departement of Image Communication is very very bad...
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Man, did you say a mouthful!  I have one and have worked the kinks out of it,
but at first, I had several problems, the bigges of which was the jerk who
was very rude to me in Tech-Support and the President who told me I was wrong
about what myu software was supposed to do (BinkleyTerm) and lastly, how he
doubted his workers were ever wrong.  I eventually talked with the chairman
of the company who provided me with answers, but acted like it "Put-him-out".
Never order direct from Image.  They want 399.00 and the Modem can be purchased
from Direct-Micro for 269.00 + shipping!  Also, get used to insulting workers,
there (Perhaps I got connected with the company lemon?)
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: V.42bis effectiveness (was Re: V.42bis - on 2400 baud)
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:59:42 GMT

mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes:

>I don't think v.42bis is probably all that helpfull for "traditional"
>uses, which amount to reading text interactively or transfering
>compressed files (typical BBS usage), but for IP linking, it's
>great, since traditional IP services for the most part are uncompressed
>(the one big exception is typical use of ftp, but smtp, nntp... all of
>those are plain ASCII for the most part). And even with VJ header compression,
>there are some small redundancies that v.42bis can wiggle out.

I use a 2400 v42/v42.bis modem quote a bit for "general" BBS
useage, and I find it to be quite usefull. It makes reading
messages, and putting up with all thoes painfull ANSI screens that
much more bearable.. For transfering compressied files it still
ovffers the 13% increase or so with the v42 protocol..
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward)
Subject: Re: UUCP 'G' protocol packet size
Organization: ASCI: UNIX Database and Communications
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:40:14 GMT

ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan) writes:
: I have been playing around with the UUCP 'G' protocol by increasing
: my uucico's supported window size from 3 to 7.  This yielded a nice
: ~20% boost in throughput when transferring compressed news batches.
: This appears to have no ill effects as far as compatibility with other
: systems go.
: 
: ....
: 
: With the previous paragraph in mind, I looked into the version of
: uucico that I'm using and found that the "packet size" is hardwired
: to 64 bytes.  So the question is, is there any benefit in increasing
: this to something like 4096 bytes?  Do I run the risk of making my
: uucico incompatible with other systems?

Think about it for a moment.
Assuming you don't have the WB bug...
If the remote site doesn't like 7,4096 it will negotiate what it wants.
The "paths" (or parameter in SVR4) just sets a starting point.

Benefit?  fewer system calls.  Better response because of less
processing switching, less overhead (but not dramitcally so) in
calculating csum, less moving of data.  Write out a simple simulation of
the basic flow and you'll see what I mean.  The big saving is in fewer
system calls.  Conventional wisdom:  system calls are more expensive
than subroutine calls within a process.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: gion@chopin.udel.edu (Timothy C. Gion)
Subject: xmodem and other protocols 
Keywords: downloading, unknown baud rate
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:45:13 GMT

I recently tried downloading a file from the mainframe using Xmodem.  I had no
success.  I checked out the xmodem.log file and found that it couldn't detect
the baud rate, so it assumed that the transfer was at 1200 baud.  I read the
man page for xmodem, but it didn't list any parameters that would allow you to
set the baud rate.  Is there a way to do this or am I forced to use Kermit or
something else?  Actually, I would like to use Zmodem, but I can't seem to 
locate it on this mainframe.

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.protocols.misc
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Re: uucico w/v32bis vs zmodem w/v32bis
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-249-5366) 24hrs.
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 00:34:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.115213.4733@analsyn.gts.org> anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward) writes:
>What Marc may not have told you is whether or not this is
>a WB and _can_ he change window and packet sizes.
>
	And what I never thought about asking...thanks for the prompt.
I'm using a WB, and as for window/packet sizes...have not found anywhere
in  the manuals both on-line or off-line that tells me anything about
changing these.  I'm using ISC SVR3.2 if anyone can help with that
one.

>Let's not have another religious war.
>
	Please no...I've had enough of the current thread that John
at Dixie started...I just wanted to know what proved to be a simple
answer to a simple question

>How about.....
>
>"If Z-modem is so good, why not tell us how to put a plug-in replacement
> for UUCP based on Z-Modem, which interfaces to news and mail in just
> the same way....."
>
	Does Taylor UUCP improve that?

Marc

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: dec@gtech.com (Dehe Cui)
Subject: V42bis modem help!
Keywords: V42bis modem
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich, RI
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:13:06 GMT

Hi:

   Can any one tell me where I can buy a latest V42bis modem, how much
the modem cost and what the data compression ratio of the V42bis modem.

Thanks.

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From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Worldblazer telebit modems
Keywords: worldblazer telebit modems Europe
Date: 6 Sep 92 01:08:05 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:

>In article <121.12417@incc.com> jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
>>I have been in the market for a telebit Worldblazer modem, I am in
>>Belgium and I have posted a request for someone who would be willing
>>to sell me one.
>....
>>First of all Telebit themselves won't sell to Europe from the states,
>>they automatically give you their distributor in UK.

>>Some American companies will send to Europe and the best price is $645
>>and the worse is $780.
>..
>>I am not quite sure what is funniest, the 945 pounds from UK or the
>>Luxembourger not being authorized.

>>So, if you want a Telebit, you buy one from the states, of course
>>without warranty or you buy another brand, I suggest we give Telebit a
>>miss and give them a big rasberry.

I suggest you hold onto the rasberry until you find out what kind of
throughput you can get without PEP. 

While some people have reported getting good results with v32/v32bis
over long distance links, I don't believe there is any general rule.

In my case, v32bis wouldn't make a reliable CONNECT and v32 was too
slow. Even PEP was only giving about 500 CPS but the great advantage
of this protocol is that you can tune it for various line condtions
and now I get 1,000 CPS on my link to the U.S.

>Well for the prices you could buy 3 Telebits from the States,
>and then if one fails you have plenty of backup while waiting
>for repair :-)

True enough. Note that except for the 300,000 yen ($2,400) T2500L,
Telebits aren't authorized in Japan and neither are Hayes, or
USRobotics. Yet these kinds of modems appear on many/most(all?)
dial-up systems.

Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Digicom Scout+ LEDs
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:23:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Cutout from SCOUT.TXT:

        Scout Plus, external model
        On the 5 1/2 by 1 1/2 front panel are 10 LEDS:

        MR      modem ready 
        TR      terminal ready
        AA      auto answer
        EC      error correction
        HS      high speed
        RD      receive data
        SD      send data
        CD      carrier detect
        CS      clear to send (hardware flow control)
        OH      off hook

Now lets look at the LEDS in action:

. =  LED OFF
O =  LED ON
B =  LED BLINKING

MR  TR  AA  EC  HS  RD  SD  CD  CS  OH      

.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      power off

O   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      power switched on, selftest

B   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .      failed hardware selftest

O   .   O   .   O   .   .   .   O   .      power on

O   O   O   .   O   .   .   .   O   .      terminal program started

O   O   O   .   O   .   .   .   O   O      modem is dialing

O   O   O   O   O   .   .   O   O   O      connected to online service

O   O   O   O   O   O   .   O   O   O      receiving files

B   O   O   O   O   O   .   O   O   O      file transfer error

O   O   O   O   O   B   B   O   O   O      entering messages online

O   O   O   .   O   .   .   .   O   .      logged out, offline again


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From: Jack_Lee@mindlink.bc.ca (Jack Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: USR sporster can support HST connections?
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:40:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Lee Burch writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <qH1sqB1w165w@rhps.UUCP>
> Posted: Tue, 08 Sep 92 17:33:01
> Org.  : CrissySoft Incorporated
> 
>    I was reading the RIME USR modem conference and I came along
> this post:
> 
> >To change your $290 USR Sporster 14.4 to a HST compatible to connect at
> >16.8:
> 
> >    Init: ATS11=50V1L3X4&H1&R2&B1E1B0&M4&A3&K3
> 
> >enter this ONCE , unless you shut your power off or lose power then
> >you'll have to re-enter it:
> 
> >ATGW03C6,22GW05CD,2F
> 
> >Here are the S register adjustments which you can write to NRAM:
> 
> >ATS14=1S24=150S26=1S32=8S34=0&W
> 
> >Do these things then call an HST board and you WILL connect at HST the
> >screens may seem a little jerky but all file transfers will be done at
> >HST speed and you can receive calls and connect with HSTs also.
> 
>   could this actually be true?  any USR sporster users out there
> want to give this a try?  its just nram settings so I highly
> dobut there is anythign you could do to actually harm the
> unit....
> 
> note: I am not claming this is true, this is just what I have
> seen and I do not own a sporster so I cannot verify it.
> 



I just tried this and as far as I know I'm connected with my Sportster 14.4 to
an HST line and getting 9600 (the limit on the host end).  I just did a file
download and got 800cps on it.

Jack_lee@mindlink.bc.ca
From: Roger_Nordin@f302.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: USR SPORTSTER 14.4K
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 03:19:31 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@f302.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> Is there a truth to the rumour that certain versions of the USRobotics
> Sportster 14.4k V32.bis modems are capable of communication with Courier
> HST modems, and are also capable of the newer 16.8k baud HST speed?
> 
> PS This INIT string is suppose to enable HST communication.
> 
> ATGW03C6,226W05CD,2F
> 
> Someone want to confirm this?

Yes, I can confirm this. Btw, you also need to set the S-registers needed for 
HST operation. These are: ATS14=1S24=150S26=1S32=8S34=0&W, and you only need 
to set them once, as they are stored in NVRAM. It works like a dream, with 
16800-HST support. Type ATB1 to connect with HST instead of V.32bis when 
dialing a 16k8-Dual Standard modem.

All Sportster modems sold to date that I have tested support this undocumented 
feature. Not only do you get HST, you also get ASL, Link Diagnostics and the 
other Courier features. Good luck with your cheap DS! :)

Btw, this works great with V.small 57600bps Courier V.32bis modems too. Just 
use the same codes.

                        _       .    __
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From: Zero.One@p101.f701.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Straight answers on ZyXEL 'PLUS' models please
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Aug 21 1992
Date: 08 Sep 92  11:16:12

 >         As many of you probably already know from previous posts
 > requesting
 > information, I'm planning to spend a good chunk (read 80-90%) of
 > my
 > non-university funds to purchase a ZyXEL U-1496S on the basis that
 > it
 > should be capable of some sort of v.fast in the future (up to the
 > DTE limit
 > of 76.8kbps).  I like all of it's other features and I know for
 > sure that
 > they exist already.  Just about 2 days before I was planning to
 > order (on a
 > Saturday) I received a post talking about the U-1496S+.  I held
 > off
 > ordering because I was curious what this model was.  I was told
 > that this
 > was *_THE_* model that ZyXEL was planning to upgrade to v.fast
 > (along with
 > the E+).  What I need is some straight answers about the existence
 > of this
 > modem.  After my inquiries about the product I have received two
 > basic
 > answers (each received from several people) :  1) the plus model
 > is a new
 > hardware product with new custom ASICs (Application Specific
 > Integrated
 > Circuits) to allow the full speed of v.fast plus other neato
 > things (like
 > voicemail etc...)   2) that the + model is a normal ZyXEL modem
 > shipped
 > with a new, special ROM revision that is also publicly available
 > for $50 or
 > so (this is what is advertised by a "distributor", the Questor
 > Project).

 >         Which answer is correct?  I don't need to know every
 > detail about
 > new hardware or new firmware features, only whether I should wait
 > for new
 > hardware to hit the market or whether I can just buy a current
 > 1496S and I
 > will get a "PLUS" model later in ROM.  This is a major purchase
 > for me and
 > I don't want to screw it up by purchasing 3 weeks too early.  E-
 > Mail or
 > post, I read all articles in this newsgroup.  Thanks in advance,

We have *NO* modem currently being sold or soon to be released that we claim
will be v.fast upgradable.

Tyrone Horton
(Zero One)
Tech Support
ZyXEL USA

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: BOCA 14.4 problems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: comp.dcom.modems
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:35:39 GMT

jwarring@violet.srg (Jeff Warrington) writes:
>I would be interested to know if the Self Test procedures described in
>chapter six of my ~manual~ work on anyone else's modem.  It describes
>what works if the procedure compleates properly but they never
>addressed what was wrong or what to do if the test didn't succeed
>~('cause of course that wouldn't happen)~.  Any way mine returns
>"ERROR" for any AT&Tn I am hoping that this is why my modem seems to
>drop connections seemingly at random.

>I would be interested in hearing about trouble people have had w/ BOCA
>equip.
*----
I don't believe that test mode works standalone - you have to have a
program to support the data send/receive that goes with it.  Did your
modem include a diagnostics program?
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From: eudoh@ST6000.SCT.EDU (Etop Udoh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: USIT fax/modem
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:28:01 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


hi,


    does anyone know anything about a USIT 8 bit fax/modem card for
the IBM PC  ????????

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