> Since you're such a tech. brainiack, I'm sure you have failed to sit in
> front of a Win95 screen when you or a customer of yours has connected and it
> says "Connected at 115,200". Of course that isn't 115K throughput, it's just
Not to cause any problems, but we do have a lot of people with 28.8 or
33.6K modems, and 90% of them show an actual connect (We keep our lines
providing 33.6K, or at least 31.2K all the time) speed (DCE speed as
opposed to DTE speed) ... If you get the latest MDMUSRSP.INF file off of
USR's website, the Sportsters (In most cases) will show DCE again.
Motorola's have the same problem. (Yes, I consider it a problem to show
DTE speed, since the customer is being fooled. I don't believe in fooling
the customer. <G>)
Regardless, what I've found to be the best fix to this is the following:
1) (This is for Windows 95) ... Go into the Control Panel, choose modems,
select the Sportster modem, and choose properties. When the screen
comes up, choose the Connection Tab and click on the Advanced button.
(It's located at the bottom righthand corner)
2) On the Advanced screen, there's an option for extra settings. Insert
the following string in the extra settings:
ATS27=0 (For Sportsters)
ATW2S95=2 (For All Others)
3) Click on OK, OK a second time, and Close to close the modem control
panel. Finally, close the Control Panel itself.
The next time the customer connects, he (or she) will see a true connect
rate, instead of the speed of the port. That way, if they get a low
connect, we can find out if it's a bad modem on my end, or a bad phone
line on their end, etc...
That string above should work with most modems. The Sportster situation
is a bit more critical. If a Sportster is not showing DCE, I would think
that it's either an incorrect modem setup, or a problem with the modem
itself. Regardless, Win95 does *NOT* come with the best init strings for
the Sportster 33.6K modems.
Jaime Bozza
Nucleus Communications
PS - To add to the Sportsters problem, the most current Sportsters no
longer comes with the processor, so occasionally there are pauses
in data transfer. While this has not been a big problem, it is
in cases (Like Multiplayer Games) where data needs to be transferred
as smoothly as possible.
Sportster 28.8's that have been upgraded to 33.6 do not have this
problem.