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John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Thu, 22 May 1997 11:59:47 -0700
At 10:54 AM 5/22/97 -0500, PM Mailing List wrote:
>On Thu, 22 May 1997, Gary McKinney wrote:
>> Yes - retraining is a function of the modem (and I have downloaded text
>> files with 5-Kbyte/sec transfer rates when hardware compression kicked in
>> <grin>). I have a 28.8 Sportster internal in my home machine and all of
>> our dialup modems are 33.6 Sportsters...
>
>Anyway to turn off retraining? Probably through an initialization string,
>I know. Some of our Supra and Harmony modem users get disconnected
>everytime the modem tries to retrain. BTW, don't mean to burst your
>bubble but the transfer rate I mentioned (3.5-3.6kBps) is downloading a
>compressed zip file not a text file. =)
>
I have a Supra Express PnPi at home. After some months I revisited my init
string and the manual...turns out the default is NO RETRAIN! I set retrain
on (%E1, I think) and got few connect fails, faster connects, fewer
disconnect failures!
JGT
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