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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Reliable and Compression Protocols -- how do they sync up?
Message-ID: <7222.280D280D@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 91 18:53:19 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, Tiny Bubbles... (ho@HOSS.UNL.EDU ) wrote:

 >Also, some el-cheapo internal modems, most of them using 
 >very old
 >chipsets, can't connect to the Microcoms *at all*.  Is this 
 >a problem
 >with other V.32 modems, or just Microcoms, or just our 
 >setup?

   As I just reported to Toby, I suspect that these modems can't handle the 
V.42 protocol negotiation request.  Dropping back to MNP or no error 
correction at all should solve the problem (add the disable command to your 
dial string).
 

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