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Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.co.uk> wrote:

> >>I've just switched to Demon as my ISP, but my up-until-now perfectly
> >>happy Motorola Modemsurfr external 56k modem will now only connect at
> >>28.8k :(
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>...and I have the correct flash upgrade (v1.009). 
> 
> > The latest has been 1.12 since early this year - this may well make a
> > difference, although most people found it upped their incoming data rate
> > by around 4K rather than anything huge.

Well, this was a Motorola tech support guy who told me 1.009 was the
latest. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I eventually found the 1.12
flasher on the Motorola BBS (which the tech support guy also forgot to
tell me about)

> Or the V90 upgrade (last time I checked it suggested that we use
> the Danish one).
> 
> See the FAQ re: checking how the modems setup, try and obtain
> your modem init string.

I inadvertantly sorted out my problem by totalling the modem and buying
a Pace instead. I decided to flash upgrade the firmware - the V90
firmware wasn't available in a UK specific version at the time of my
post, but there was the 1.12 update of the KFlex firmware.

Motorola don't just supply a ROM dump that you can transfer to the modem
with some comms software. They only provide a windows EXE that does it
for you. Great if you're using Windows, otherwise not so helpful. I
dutifully ran it by emulating a PC on my mac and running the flash
upgrader only to have the whole thing crash (unsurprising really!)
halfway through wiping it's existing firmware. I now have a useless
beige box that doesn't know what an AT command is which I would probably
have to ship back to Motorola if I wanted to get it working again. As it
is, I thought this would take at least a couple of weeks at best (I NEED
MY EMAIL!!!!) so I thought 'sod it' and went and bought a Pace, which
works fine.

Thanks for your help, though.
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Richard Burge <richard.burge@bigfoot.com>