Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!dewey From: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Everex Evercom 24E - experiences? Message-ID: <577@sequoia.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 89 16:33:22 GMT References: <24A7EE3B.21773@ateng.com> Reply-To: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Distribution: na Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers Lines: 55 In article <24A7EE3B.21773@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >My company is looking into buying a large quantity of Everex Evercom 24E >modems. I'd like to ask anyone who's had exceptional experiences, good or >bad, to report them. > >Post or E-Mail, either is OK. > >adTHANKSvance. >-- >You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. >Chip Salzenberg | or >A T Engineering | Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! I recently made the bad decision to purchase Everex Evercom 24E+ modems for our use as both indial and outdial through a Micom. [The bad part of the decision is hooking through the Micom.] I don't see problems with them being used in outdial at all. The line connect quality has been basically fine. The problem is that the damned things won't SHUT UP when I want them too for indial. Everex made a decision somewhere down that line that they would add a feature where if a connect is established at other than the speed of the last connect, the firmware would graciously decide to send out a string to the 232 port of the general form 'Connect at xxx baud, reset your software' <- paraphrased. This is done regardless of the switch settings where you can enable or disable the more standard Hayes return strings. There is a string that can be sent to the modem to disable this message, I believe its either &I1 or &I0. There is NOT any way to store this configuration however, so if power cycles its back blabbing again. I called Everex several times about this. The first time I got a guy who claimed they didn't do this, it wasn't in the manual (it's in the addendum, I stared at it while he told me it didn't exist). The next time I got a guy who didn't know it did it, but was at least willing to believe it did. He had no idea how to disable it, and would talk to an engineer and call me back the next day. That's been several weeks... I even had mentioned I'd be willing to blow the warranty and make mods to leads or whatever if that's what it took, but to no avail. We're going to replace a bunch of 1200 modems with 2400 in the future, for this same application. Everex will NOT be a consideration. I'd recommend the modem for a PC/Personal type modem, but not for use in an environment where you care about controlling the line significantly. Dewey -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | ...!cs.utexas.edu!execu!dewey or | "If you will just quit shouting at me, I | | ...!natinst!sequoia!dewey | will try to hear what you are saying" | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | If I so often disagree with my company, of course these ideas are mine | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-