[comp.dcom.modems] Help with Microcom AX/2400c and UUCP

billd@fps.com (Wonko the Sane) (01/17/90)

One of the sites I feed has a cheap US Robotics 2400 baud modem which
doesn't support any fancy protocols and I talk to it with a Microcom
AX/2400c which supports MNP 5.  Presumably, the Microcom should not
be doing any fancy stuff with the data when talking to a "dumb" modem
however I only get about 160cps effect transfer rate.  With Hayes 2400
baud modems connected to Hayes 2400 baud modems, I'm used to getting
up to 218cps with UUCP.

I have reliable mode and compression available for dialins from modems
that support MNP.  Shouldn't that stuff be disabled automatically
when talking to a non-MNP modem?  Are these modems incompatible
somehow?

Does anyone have any ideas why this is so?  Is there something
inherently brain damaged about either modem or am I missing
something?

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