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From: huhta@poe.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Christopher T. Huhta)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Supra Firmware Upgrade
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:47:16 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
NNTP-Posting-Host: poe.ccs.itd.umich.edu


    I thought I heard of someone on this newsgroup make reference to the
Supra Fax Modem Firmware upgrade (for Voice recognition/mail) as already
being released.  It was supposed to be out in December, but I have heard
nothing about it.  Has supra released this product, and if not, anyone got
any info on what's holding it up?

Chris Huhta
huhta@milton.ccs.itd.umich.edu
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can you lock DTE at 76,800 bps? Is that a valid speed?
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:23:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Jan22.112344.4758
Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>In article <15JAN199316510895@elroy.uh.edu> st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
>>The Zyxel's which will support 19.2K in the future, should be able
>>to do a DTE rate of 76,800.  I talked to a shareware terminal program
>>author and asked him if he planned to allow for 76800 DTE and his reply
>>was that the speed was IMPOSSIBLE to do with an PC serial port because
>>everything hhas to be evenly divisible by some number off of 115200 bps.
>>
>>Therefore, the divisor for 115K would be 1 ... for 57.6K, it would be 2.
>>
>>76,800 would not have an integer divisor, therefore, no go.  So, I ask,
>>is he right or wrong?

>He's correct.
>There's a lot more to the world than IBM PC compatibles!

And most of *them* won't do it either. The problem has to do with the
*UART* not being able to accept a higher input clock rate. The UART wants
a clock which it divides by 8 to get a "master" clock. The maximum 
master clock the UART will handle is 115,200. Bit rates are determined
by dividing the master by the value in the divisor registers. 

Check the specs for the UARTs in any personal computer, and I doubt that
they'll do better. And many workstations cut corners on serial ports. 
So theyt may not do better either.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:27:36 CST
From: <U58373@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: (Q) How to get call waiting to disconnect me
Distribution: usa

You should contact your local telephone company or check the information
section in your phone book.  Usually, there is a series of keys you can
press on your touch-tone keypad to disable call-waiting for a particular
call.  For example, here in my part of Chicago "*70" will disable call
waiting.  I simply configure my communications program to to add this
string to my dialing prefix, e.g. "ATDT*70," and this works fine.  As
soon as I complete the call, call-waiting is automatically re-enabled.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Michael Levine                       Internet: u58373@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
  College of Nursing - Micros Support
  University of Illinois at Chicago         Bitnet: u58373@uicvm
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 04:47:02 -0800
From: Dan_Cook@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: three way calling gives security (Was: Caller ID products?)
Comment-To: Bohdan_Tashchuk@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: Dan_Cook@f344.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/344

 BT> This same trick applies whether or not you dial out 
 BT> on the same or different
 BT> line as people dial in to. If someone finds out the 
 BT> phone numbers of your
 BT> outgoing lines, they can spoof you unless you do 
 BT> something like this or get
 BT> the phone company to block incoming calls.
 
Blocking incomming calls (creating an outbound only line) is as easy
as setting call forwarding on the line.  My favorite number to forward
such lines to is the quiet termination test number in the local CO. 
Anyone who calls the number gets dead air.
 
- Dan

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From: domet@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: ISDN definition.... HELP
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:26:22 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I really need some help!

Can someone please explain to me a little (in plain English) what ISDN
is/does? 
Cincinnati is just now beginning to get widespread use of ISDN and I would like
to know more about it. I talked to a Cincinnati Bell Telephone representative
and he said it provides capabilities of transmitting data at HIGH raetes of
speed while talking voice at the same time.. etc.

Can someone tell me exactly what ISDN is? How it works? What does the TelCo
have to do to upgrade? Uses?

Thanks!
I appreciate the help!

Luke

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: willmson@rtsg.mot.com (Jeff Williamson)
Subject: Help connecting to interactive BBS's
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:19:16 GMT

Excuse my modem ignorance but I need help. I just changed modems
in my IBC-PC clone, to the UDS/Motorola Fastalk 32bx. Now I 
cannot connect to America on Line, Prodigy, etc... I get a
CD, the number is dialed, the modems signal, then mine 
disconnects.

However I can connect easily at various speeds when I use
a standard terminal program to connect to regular BBS's.

Is there some feature which needs to turned off/on in order
to use these on-line BBS's?

This modem features up to 14400bps, and V.22, V.32. 



Thanks in advance.


-- 
      .  . /o  \\   \  \ 	 Jeff Williamson willmson@rtsg.mot.com 
0   .	 0/     \\   \0/     0   Contract Personnel Resources Inc.	
\\.    < /       \\   /     //   Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group
/\	 \\       \\ /\     /\	"These are someone's opinions, but not Moto's"
From: gerrit@laosinh.stgt.sub.org (Gerrit Heitsch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Giving up on Supra
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:22:49 MET
 <1jmemoINN6ai@ni.umd.edu>
Distribution: world
Organization: Lao-Sinh project (private UUCP site)

In article <1jmemoINN6ai@ni.umd.edu>, Louis A. Mamakos writes:

> >IF the supra does not disconnect properly, you should blame
> >Rockwell about it, not to implement it in the software they sell
> >to manufacturers, that use the C1999-16 or C1993-11 as the CPU.
> >The RC144DP is able to send a GSTN-cleardown to disconnect.
> >Another possibility to disconnect would be to send a MNP LD or a
> >V.42 DISC. Just a question of software not hardware!
> 
> No, you should blame Supra if there is a problem with their modem.
> You presumably bought a modem from Supra, and not from Rockwell.

Yes, I bought my modem from Supra, but Supra does not write the ROM code
(as far as I know) because Rockwell makes the instruction set of the
C1999-16 or C1993-11 not available to the public, so all manufacturers,
that use this CPU have to buy their code from Rockwell.
(If someone has the instruction set and other data for the C1999-16
or C1993-11 drop me a mail)
You can ask for some special enhancements in the code as the
code for the little display or S109 and S110, but all will be implemented
by Rockwell and you will get the ready-to-burn code.

The only thing I can blame supra for is not to push Rockwell hard
enough to fix the bugs in their code for the RC144DP.

> do you suppose Rockwell will do if you call them to get your Supra
> modem repaired?
I do not need to get my modem repaired, it works as it should except
for very bad lines. But even with bad lines I can get working
connections with ATS110=3S109=56.

I have a data sheet for the RC144DP, you can program everything, but
if you do not set the parameters for the internal DSP right, you will
run into problems. I looks for me, that Rockwell has still some problems
finding the right settings for bad lines for the RC144DP.

Gerrit

-- 
         Gerrit Heitsch  Moenchweg 16  7038 Holzgerlingen  Germany
  Logical adresses: UUCP: gerrit@laosinh.stgt.sub.org FIDO: (2:2407/106.9)
If we will ever be visited by Aliens, it will be very hard to explain, why a
 lifeform, that is intelligent enough to build atomic weapons can be stupid
   enough to do it. (taken from GEO special about space, page 88-91)
From: sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: zyxel help for an idiot (me!)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:16:50 PST
Organization: Questor|Free Usenet News|Vancouver, BC: +1 604 681 0670

gajarsky@pilot.njin.net (Bob Gajarsky - Hobokenite) writes:

|>  2) how can someone (on the list i saw on the net) be able to afford
|>  to sell it for $339 when the ad in computer shopper lists it for
|>  $469?

We sell it for just a bit more than $339; we do so by not being greedy.
We only make about 10% after all is said and done.  That little bit of
profit goes to support the free aspect of this site, which is to provide
access to Medical, Environmental and native indigenous information from
the Usenet, and some free e-mail access to registered callers.

How do we do this?  Low overhead, advance payment, and no credit cards.

Hope that helps.

--
    Steve Pershing, SysAdmin  <sp@questor.org>    The QUESTOR Project
  FREE access to Environ, Sci, Med, & AIDS news, and more.  [also UUCP]
    on a ZyXEL-U1496S+  =>  v.42bis, v.32bis, v.33, up to 16,800bps.
                 -=-         -=-         -=-         -=-
   Fones: (+1 604)  Data: 681-0670  Telefax: 682-6160  Voice: 682-6659
From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Hayse code to set Auto answer.
Keywords: Hayse
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:12:22 GMT
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ

I would like to know how to set the Hayse 2400 baud modem to auto answer mode.
Can someone please point me to the set of codes on the system somewhere or let
me know the code via e-mail?
Also, I would like to sell my modem and get a V.32 V.42 bis modem. Does any
one know if there is a resale value for the 2400 baud hayse?
Please respond via e-mail.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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931 Gould-Simpson bldg.                       /             /    /     /
University of Arizona                        /             /____/     /
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Intermail 2.2 ... Where can I get this?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:41 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I need to find out the filename and where to get Intermail 2.2.
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: *** what's so good about zyxel modems? ***
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:27:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.033413.17784@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
|This is a good point. I wonder how many people use terminals with a high
|speed modem?

Or, for a better example, how about terminal servers?  It's not likely that
you'll be able to get software for your Annex or Cisco to load up your modem's
firmware.

  Bill
From: JMAASKANT@THORIN.UTHSCSA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Vax SZ fails
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:57:09 GMT
Organization: The Internet

I've installed VMS SZ and RZ, however the only way I've been able to get
a download from vax to PC to work is to start a transfer (SZ filename) on 
the vax side and then shell out of my terminal program and do a DSZ RZ.  
Auto downloads don't work from various programs (Telemate, Binkley, 
Binkley OS/2, TE/2).  This is not really an option from an OS/2 session 
however.
 
The only clue I've got is that TE/2 tells me it received an 'invalid SOH'
before aborting.

The VMS szrz file I've got is from '91 but I didn't see a more recent one
for VMS when searching on Archie.

Any hints or help would be appreciated, I'd much rather start a download
than drive into work to pull things off...
 
Cheers,
Jan (Jmaaskant@uthscsa.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
From: rdervan@orac.holonet.net (Richard Dervan)
Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:50:18 GMT

I had the same fear about CID when I first heard it annouced.  Abuse by
commercial businesses.  I've gotten CID Block on my phone (although
Southern Bell doesn't advertise it, it IS available).  Per-call CID block
will also be available soon.

-Richard
From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can you lock DTE at 76,800 bps?  Is that a valid speed?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:11:29 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG

In comp.dcom.modems, article <XqcRXB1w165w@zswamp.UUCP>,
  geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
> 
>    USR may make fine modems, but don't assume that they're tops in any 
> particular category!  In particular, the fact that USR's top DTE speed is 
> 57600 bps doesn't mean that there aren't any faster DTEs.  If I remember 
> correctly, Telebit's WorldBlazer will speak 115200 bps, though I'd normally be
> the first to comment that it's drastic overkill.
> 
Not always. V.42 introduces a high latency delay for larger blocks of data
because the modem must receive the whole block before it can start forwarding
it to the host. So if you have an application which requires low latency, the
modem<->computer link must be as fast as possible.

One example is TCP/IP (for interactive use). 

-- 
Quigley's Law:
       Whoever has any authority over you,
       no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
-- 
Matthias Urlichs  --  urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de   /(o\
Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany  --  +49-721-9612521     \o)/
From: sylve_ge@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Gerald E Sylvester)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Phone cutoff on modems with two jacks?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:15:41 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Keywords: modem relays


I have a Digicom Scout+ modem.  When I am doing telecommunications, it
disconnects the phone.  Since my roommate's phone extension is wired 
through my phone connection, I was wondering what wire(s) do I have
to feed through the modem so it cuts off the whole extension so when
he picks up, all he gets is a dead phone.  (BTW, US phone connections)

Thanks in advance
Gerald Sylvester
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: knopf@tigger.jvnc.net (Greg Knopf)
Subject: Telebit T3000 rackmount ques.
Originator: knopf@nisc.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet, Princeton University, NJ
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:18:41 GMT


Hello,

Has anyone had any the experience of having the first modem on
a Telebit T3000 rackmount not picking up and so disabling a hunt
group?  I've seen this several times and would be interested in
other users' experiences.

- Greg
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From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Diffs between 16550A & 16550AFN
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:03:25 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

> My National Semiconductor "Data Communications Local Area UARTS Handbook"
> (1990 edition) says:
> 
>   The NS16550AF is an improved version of the NS16450 Universal
>   Asynchonous Receiver/Transmitter (UART). Functionally identical
>   to the NS16450 on powerup (CHARACTER mode)[*1*], the NS16550AF can be
>   put into an alternate mode (FIFO mode) to reclieve the CPU of
>   excessive software overhead.
> 
>   [*1*] Can also be reset to NS16450 Mode under software control.

   That's exactly what they said about the NS16550A.  I do not know of any 
differnece between the A and AF part, and I'm beginning to believe that 
National slipped the "F" in there to mean "FIFO" without making any changes to 
the chip.

  Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
                Now I've lost everything, I give to you my soul
           And the meaning of all that I believed before escapes me
                  In this world of none, no thing, and no one
                            - Genesis, _Afterglow_
From: sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Complete Communicator (was ZyXEL cheapest price)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:03:52 PST
Organization: Questor|Free Usenet News|Vancouver, BC: +1 604 681 0670

wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:

|> Does someone have voice mail set up so that I could call in and see if I
|> like it as a voice caller? I would be particularly interested in
|> National Semiconductors 'TyIN-2000' or 'The Complete Communicator'.
|> These two seem to claim data/voice/fax switching and sell in the $200 
|> to $250 area. Are they just gadgets so far, or do they fill real needs?

The Complete Communicator works just fine.  I have been using it here for
FAX and Voice for some years.  (It used to sell for about $700; now they
have a modem upgrade that lets it do 9600bps, and call it the "Complete
Communicator Gold".)

If you want to try it, call it at 604 681-6659, but be aware that if I
am in, I will probably answer the phone and you will have to call again.

The way it is set up is for a "default to FAX".  What that means is, if the
voice caller doesn't have a TT fone, he will get the FAXmodem.

If you do have a TT fone, the system will tell you to "hit any key, NOW",
which then drops you to the voice-mail system.  (A remote FAX machine
doesn't understand the voice, so it waits and within 20sec gets a FAX tone.)

To be able to get to the Data modem, the remote caller would have to
hit a code to do that.  (Or, you could set it up to default to the Data
modem, or to default to voice.)

If there is anything else I can explain about it, please don't hesitate
to ask... and NO, I don't sell them... just ZyXEL and Telebit and EPROM
programmers, to help support the free aspect of this site.

--
    Steve Pershing, SysAdmin  <sp@questor.org>    The QUESTOR Project
  FREE access to Environ, Sci, Med, & AIDS news, and more.  [also UUCP]
    on a ZyXEL-U1496S+  =>  v.42bis, v.32bis, v.33, up to 16,800bps.
                 -=-         -=-         -=-         -=-
   Fones: (+1 604)  Data: 681-0670  Telefax: 682-6160  Voice: 682-6659
From: abc@bass.bu.edu (Onnei Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Problem DL'ing with Boca 14K and new machine.
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:20:41 GMT
Reply-To: abc@bass.bu.edu (Onnei Cheng)
Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
Organization: Boston University

In article <C1C4En.EDx@iat.holonet.net> dre@orac.holonet.net (Andre T.M. Alguero) writes:
>
>I just got a new 486 33Mhz box with integrated video and IDE HD controller.
>I put in my trusty old Boca at IRQ3, Com2, which worked fine in my old 386-40
>(w/o integrated anything) at all speeds, now I get anywhere from 20 to 50
>CRC errors during a Zmodem transfer of a 1MB binary file. 
>
>I can't seem to figure anything out to resolve the problem. Anyone have any
>clues?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-Andre'
From: yunson@lpf.umd.edu (Yunson Du)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Deperately need help on modem simulation
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:49:15 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

Hi, all:

I am doing beeper simulation by using pc and modem to
connect to paging central service. Modem setting is (300, 8, n, 1)
Right now, I can direct modem to call. However, I can't get the
data from modem. I am supposed to get 'id=' prompt after connecting to
the paging central service. Please respond by email to
uctang@socrates.umd.edu as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

    yonghong  
-- 
yunson@kaos.umd.edu
Xref: sparky comp.dcom.modems:20042 alt.security:5379
From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:48:51 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: icat.larc.nasa.gov

johnt@ee.ubc.ca (John Jay G. Tanlimco) writes:

>The question is, why can't a person get the number made by a Call Trace?

Hmmm.  Good point - I hadn't thought about it *that* way.  You're right...
it seems silly not to also release the number obtained by Call Trace, since
if you had Caller-ID and the number wasn't blocked, you know what it is
anyway!


>>This is what really gets me.  The TelCo markets Caller-ID as somehow
>>protecting personal privacy from intimidating calls, knowing full well that
>>nothing you do with Caller-ID is worth a damn when it comes to trying to
>>stop a real prank caller.  Only Call Trace is really evidence.  But, oh, if

>But wouldn't prank callers think twice, knowing their calls can be traced 
>easily.  Even if it isn't admissible as evidence, if you call them back
>right after they called you, that should scare the prankster.

See your own note below about using pay phones.


>>you happen to be a business, look at the deal we've got for you!  Names and
>>numbers of everyone who calls you, with a cross-referenced database to get
>>their address, too!

>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 is calling a store to ask for a price any different from walking in
to ask?  Are you saying that stores should have the right to require my
name, address, and phone number before I can enter their store or ask them
any questions about their goods or services?

If for some reason you DO think they have this right, then isn't it their
responsibility to let me know of this policy BEFORE I hand over the
information so I can choose to not reveal it and terminate our budding
business relationship immediately?  With Caller-ID (and no blocking) I
am not even given the chance to make this decision (note to Terry Parks:
please resist the temptation to tell me that I shouldn't have tried to
call them in the first place).

-- 
Michael T. Palmer         |  "A man is crazy who writes a secret in any
m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov  |   other way than one which will conceal it
RIPEM key on server       |   from the vulgar." - Roger Bacon
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