davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) (03/21/91)
chuck@irene.mit.edu (PARSONS, CHARLES) writes: > That is it claimed the USR dual standard was terrible for bad line > conditions, I had just about settled on USR until that. Is it true?? > Also it didn't have reviews of Intel an Practical Pheripherals, two second > choices. Anybody have any info on those? I tried to use a USR DS on link to Tallin, Estonia and/or Helsinki, Finland. When I tried to upload, it would send a bit and then get into some kind of retrain/change speed loop where the lights would wink and blink and wink and blink ... and no data came through. The only way I could manage the link was to step down to 2400 BPS MNP5, but I already had a modem that would do that :-( Further testing seemed to indicate that it sending to a normal kind of BBS/system that echoes back what you send it just doesn't work very well with the HST mode. Other people have told me that they have used the USR DS for sending with non-ASCII protocols and it works OK. But I myself gave up on the USR and changed to Telebits and they are more to my liking as I can control so many more things to configure what the modem is doing in light of the kind of conditions I'm encountering. --Dave