tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (10/25/88)
I have a new USRobotics Courier 2400 bps external modem. It gets a lot more errors than my el cheapo Everex 1200 bps internal modem ever got. Do you suppose this is due to the higher bit rate? Or something else? Also, this courier always comes up in terse mode, no matter what I set the DIP switch to. (There is a DIP switch just for this setting.) I have to type "atv1" to get verbal codes rather than the numeric ones. Sounds like a defect, doesn't it? Tom Reingold PAPERNET: |INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research |UUCP-NET: bellcore!tr 445 South St room 2L350 |SOUNDNET: (201) 829-4622 [work], Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 | (201) 287-2345 [home]
steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke) (10/28/88)
In article <11251@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes: }I have a new USRobotics Courier 2400 bps external modem. It gets }a lot more errors than my el cheapo Everex 1200 bps internal modem }ever got. Do you suppose this is due to the higher bit rate? Or }something else? } Well, I have a USR Courier 2400 external, and I usually don't have any problems with it, except when trying to talk coast to coast to a Practical Peripherals internal 2400 using Carbon Copy. Switching back to 1200 usually solves the problem, but makes it miserably slow. However, the person on the east coast says he has lots of problems with the lines there, so I'm inclined to think the problem is not with my modem. }Also, this courier always comes up in terse mode, no matter what }I set the DIP switch to. (There is a DIP switch just for this }setting.) I have to type "atv1" to get verbal codes rather than }the numeric ones. Sounds like a defect, doesn't it? } Yes, I'd say you have a defective DIP switch - mine seems to work just fine; it always comes up in "atv1" mode. Call 1-800-DIAL-USR and ask USR's tech department what to do about it. ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: steve@ivucsb.UUCP; lemke@apple.COM AppleLink: LEMKE ----- uucp: pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- alt.uucp: {decwrl!}sun!apple!lemke GEnie: S.Lemke ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"