From: dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: Supra problems wanted
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:32:31 GMT

In article <sherlock.003k@sleuth.eskimo.com> sherlock@sleuth.eskimo.com (Jonathan Marsh) writes:
>    MOTHER of GOD! Perhaps it's just that I've spent a little time reading the
>manual, talking to Supra folks who have a life & did my own upgrade. I've even
>used GPfax, which is fine for docs, but worthless for pics, but it does work as
>claimed. So where's the beef? I bought one of the first 14.4k units & aside from
>Telebit headaches, all has worked fairly well.
>    You need a fast machine, a solid cable/hardware handshaking, a solid phone
>line & a clue as to what you are about... Else, fumble along & complain.

	Excuse me, but I do know how to read the manual, and have read it and 
know many of the options that are available. However, nowhere in the manual 
does it say:

	&SN - this command stops the hissing noise when the brand new modem
	is turned on every single time and is otherwise not being used

	&NMF - this is the special No More Flicker mode, which causes your
	LED display to stop flickering while online. This also causes the
	display to not flicker while offline and pressing the DELETE key or
	BACKSPACE key. And last of all, it turns off the gradiated intensity
	levels of the LED display from the upper left to the lower right of
	the display.

	%DP - this command turns those dead pixels from your new modem back 
	on

	M6 - this is for those of you with speakers that don't make any noise.
	it is accomplished by making it REALLY loud

	S0=-1 - this sets the modem to answer the phone at random numbers of
	rings. Sometimes after none, one, six, or never. Great if you are
	running a BBS

	HA - this option means 'hang up the phone immediately whenever someone
	calls and don't even try to connect'

	%c7 - this turns on MNP-level 30 compression, and there is no way
	to disable it. Unfortunately no other modems support this, so when
	someone tries to connect, we send this signal first so that they
	will never connect. And to make it better, we don't ever stop until 
	the power is turned off to keep those nasty modem users from calling
	our bbs ever again

	&NS - this command makes you unable to connect to other Supra modems

	&RDC - this is the Random Drop Carrier option, which causes your
	modem to suddenly hang up while you are online

	&T8 - this is the internal line quality test option. It always 
	returns "Your modem is working fine, but you have lots of line noise"
	even though you never see any line noise, and none of your other 
	modmes have any of the problems listed above.



	Just for your information, I recently installed a non-Supra modem.
It answers the phone. It connects. It even lets people log in. I admit it
doesn't report their speed correctly using W2 (as there is no W2), and I 
have had some trouble so far, but it is better than not having connections
made AT ALL. Now you can yell at me for not reading the 120 page manual for
the new modem...but I promise I will do it today.

	If you think my modem works fine, I will gladly pay you $50 to trade
modems...my SupraFAX 14.4 for yours.



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