Re: New USR 33.6 Modems and Livingston

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
21 May 1997 21:04:42 +0200

In article <19970521164055343.AAA382@dave.buckeyeweb>,
David Davies <David@buckeyeweb.com> wrote:
>We've still got one POP running a PM2E-30 full of sporties (10 of 'em new
>within the last 3 months) and I'm kind of baffled as to the probs that have
>been listed here. We haven't seen anything like what people are talkin'
>about. Other than the DNS information not being sent all the time. Our
>software lists the DNS in the Dial-Up networking so that hasn't been an
>issue.

Well, I try to avoid USR modems especially Sportsters. Today I set up
2 Linux computers to do dial-on-demand to eachother for a customer.
They provided the modems. Knowing sportsters, I said I had to have them
in the office first to program them right. The factory setting is
software-flow-control and comport-speed-follows-connect-speed. That
should be hardware flow control and fixed speed, ofcourse.

So I got one out of the plastic and tested it. Hey great - new
factory defaults since I last looked (1 year ago). OK!

I assumed the other modem was the same so I didn't program it - WRONG.
Took me 1 hour before I found the problem. Both modems brandnew, wrapped
in cellophane. Different factory defaults.

Mike.

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