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Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?

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From: bill davidsen
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:43
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In article <eric-2203962225330001@sobt.ao.net>, Eric Shaw <eric@ao.net> wrote:
| In article <4i88th$qj7@piglet.cc.utexas.edu>, victor@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
| 
| >Sometime the modem just wouldn't take any commands at that speed
| >setting.  No probelm at 115.2 or 38.4.
| 
| Yours works at 115.2??? Ours works at 38.4 ONLY - any other setting it
| will take AT commands, but upon connection, all you get is garbage.

- lock DTE speed
- use hardware flow control
- see the manual

If you have it set up correctly and it doesn't work, you could have
a bad modem. But the very common cause is some problem with flow
control, usually "there isn't any."

Hope this helps.
--
	-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
		-Dave Welch
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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc,uk.net,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sportster Vi 28,800 modem - any good ?
Date: 27 Mar 1996 00:43:17 GMT
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