RE: (PM) PM2e30 w/USR MP/8I's

James Courtier-Dutton (dutton@livingston-ent.co.uk)
Sat, 3 Apr 1999 02:18:51 +0100

Hello John,
Ok, do whatever you feel is right, The PMs only sends the init string at
bootup, so 20 times a day is probably not justified. I only suggested it to
someone who was having problems with the modems not answering after a bit.
Cheers
James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin [mailto:ekool@ns1.netmdc.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 03:25
> To: James Courtier-Dutton
> Cc: Steve Coleman; portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: RE: (PM) PM2e30 w/USR MP/8I's
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>
> -| Hello
> -| I would try a &W at the end of your string.
> -| Cheers
> -| James
>
> It's been discussed on the list before about NOT doing that... here's why.
>
> the &W usually writes the current setup/init to the NVRAM of the modem. If
> you are using this as your init string EVERY time, that means that you
> could have written it up to NVRAM in a standard day easily 20 times. NVRAM
> can be written only so many times before it stops functioning. I would
> advise _against_ adding this to an init string.
>
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