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Any help on the following problem would be appreciated.

I just bought a USR Sportster (external, no-fax). I run a BBS under
Waffle 1.65 (DOS 5.0), and I get a Usenet feed from a local Usenet site.
My hardware is slow, so although my feed site supports 14,400 baud
transfers, I have to connect at 9600 baud or else I get so many errors
while downloading that the connection terminates!

Below is the configuration I have to use in order to force a 9600
baud connection with my news feed. If I change ANY of the baud rates --
to 19200 for example -- my modem inexplicably jumps to 14400 baud as
soon as the feed's modem answers. This is unacceptable.

On the other hand, if someone calls my bbs at any other speed than 9600
baud, they are unable to connect. This is unacceptable.

What is the problem?? How can I FORCE a 9600 baud connection with my
news feed and simultaneously ALLOW both 2400 and 9600 baud incoming
calls??

**********<< RUN.BAT FILE >>*************************************

C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE off
C:\BNU.COM /F- /T:4096 /R:8192 /L:1=9600,8N1
CLS                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:TOP
@ECHO OFF
CD D:\WAFFLE\BIN
WAFFLE %1

[....various call statements and labels......]

C:\BNU.COM /U
C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE on

******<< POLL.BAT FILE >>*******************************************

CD D:\WAFFLE\BIN
UUCICO -b9600 -x4 -s lakes
UUXQT  ^^^^^^
BATCH

*****<< STATIC FILE >>***********************************************

device: 2
driver: FOSSIL
locked: 9600
        ^^^^
speed: 9600
       ^^^^
initialize: ATH0S0=1M2Q0V1E1X4&A0&B0&H1&K3&N0&R2
offhook: ATH1
debug: modem
*********************************************************************

Kalki Dasa



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