Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!xylogics!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!squishy From: squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Shishin Yamada) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Practical Peripherals 9600SA Message-ID: <2880@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 01:12:06 GMT References: <2786@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <3743.279dc6ae@hayes.uucp> Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 54 In article <3743.279dc6ae@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes: >In article <2786@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu >(Shishin Yamada) writes: (Toby Nixon) replys: > >> Also, it seems to be having troubles connecting to another service, >> namely Prodigy. I dont know why? I am trying to have it do the proper >> negotiation. > >Prodigy doesn't support error control, and they don't like to see >the detection patterns sent by error-control modems. Use "&Q0" in >your initialization string or program it in your modem's >non-volatile memory; this should help you to connect more reliably >to Prodigy. > Thanks Toby. You hit it right on the nose. Prodigy doesn't support flow control. It was SIMPLY corrected by adding the string "&Q0." Prodigy tech support is VERY familliar with this as it seems to affect practically all error correction/data compression type modems (MNP5 or V.42bis). Prodigy, by the way, doesn't support anything above straight 2400 baud. >> Also, my Mac programis not able to keep up with the modem in terms >> of text scrolling. Any suggestions of comm programs would be appreciated. > >Smartcom II for the Macintosh from Hayes is very fast and can keep >up with just about any modem. > Ahh, I've heard many good things about SmartCom II. I don't think it does, but could you tell me if it supports X-windows? Our universities Sun Sparcs is where I do all my work. By the way, I am now more broke as your typical techie college kid. I wish Hayes supported Academic Pricing like USRobotics, Apple, IBM, Zenith, and Microsoft do at our school. Hopefully I'll get a good term program when I graduate. Most of the problem occured with the back scroll buffer on my mac, so I re-worked some of its dynamics to make it faster. Now it's OK. Overall, getting used to 9600 baud is a big switch from the safe slow modems. There are SO many S registers and other soft switches to work with. Now that I am more aquainted, it is much better. I have found the PPI 9600SA to be quite good after all, and I have no complaints. I have found that for my uses, the reason I had not seen it go over 9600 bps is because our universities computer's network gateways at set to go 9600 at most. Henve I only see transfers around 900 chars/sec. I guess I got a modem technology a little ahead of our school. Anyways, I'm going to complain to them for a faster gateway. At least it is not the PPI's problem. Also, I had problems with quotation marks that was because of faulty INITs and CDEVs background programs on my MacIntosh. Thanks again! Your replies were very helpful! 8-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Shishin "Squish" Yamada Squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Northwestern University Electrical Engineering Class of '91 --------------------------------------------------------------------