Telebit Worldblazer modem problems

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From: Mark Benard
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:01

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We recently acquired a couple of Telebit Worldblazers, but before we had a
chance to install them, we heard that there were problems.  So we called
them;  below is the information we obtained.  If you have one of these, you
might want to call Telebit to make sure you are sent the fixes.

Mark
----

> Yep.  There is a problem.  The WB has a problem changing window sizes
> from 7 to 3.
>
> For the time being, we should turn off spoofing and PEP negotiation.
> To do this we need to set  S180=2, S111=0, and S50=7.  Turning off
> PEP will improve the performance of the modem until the bug fixes are
> in place.
>
> Telebit will be releasing a fix for the spoofing problem in about a
> week's time.  They will send us the fix for both modems.  We're looking
> at about a 2 week time frame for getting the bug fixes.
-- 
Mark Benard
Department of Computer Science     INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu
Tulane University                  USENET:   rex!mb
New Orleans, LA 70118

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From: mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard)
Subject: Telebit Worldblazer modem problems
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