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>::       2. US Robotics Sportster V.34+
>:are OK, but Sportsters are a NO!
>I love 'em. Run the most current ROM version, and you will have a rock

I checked out the comp.dcom.modem(s) place and it looks like current
versions, the ones with a 92.x MHz clock (use ATI7 or maybe 11, or
one of those to check) -- pretty new ones, have problems.  There's
said to be a ROM fix, but maybe just internals, and then only if
there's a socket (some don't have sockets anymore).  Beats me what
the problems are exactly, but I've seen 'pauses' referred to often.

FTR, I have the old 20.x MHz clock, in a V.34 Vi (28.8 tops) and
it runs fine, even with &K3 here.  When CRL isn't puttering around,
I get 3250cps on zips, no errors, minimal blers/naks, etc.  99 times
out of 100 I get in at 28800, and the rest 26400 (once lower, whatever
it was).  When CRL is puttering around, I get 2800-3000cps, CTS 
toggling.  When CRL is in the ground, I get 1700-2000cps and lots of
errors on downloads (CRC errors, often different types according to
my comm program, zoc), and editing is futile.  

Right now, Pine is working fine, except I just have a 7-second pause
back-spacing after 'futile'.  This, I believe, is not the same 
pause that new Sporsters owners are complaining about; CRL craps out
without any help from the modem.

Here's my ATI6, followed by an ATO to get back:

OK
ATI6
USRobotics Sportster Vi 28800 Faxmodem Link Diagnostics...

Chars sent                 1536      Chars Received           148992
Chars lost                    0
Octets sent                3630      Octets Received          109389
Blocks sent                1794      Blocks Received            4057
Blocks resent                13

Retrains Requested            0      Retrains Granted              1
Line Reversals                0      Blers                         2
Link Timeouts                 3      Link Naks                     5

Data Compression       V42BIS 1024/32
Equalization           Long
Fallback               Enabled
Protocol               LAPM
Speed                  28800/28800
Current Call           00:34:30

Online

Chars Received and the other char-amounts simply overflow at a small 
number; I can be on for hours going through usenet and never see any
true sort of character counts here.

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