Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Hayes 2400 baud smartmodem (stupidmodem ?) question :(
Message-ID: <217.28584132@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:58:20 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, Gregory Cumber (cumber@portia.Stanford.EDU ) wrote:

 >  this might seem trivial to some, but ive tried everything 
 >and spent 6 months in "slow motion" .... ZZZZZZZ....

 >  i have a hayes 2400 smartmodem, am connecting to 2400 baud 
 >lines when i dial in, but CANT get anything but :  CONNECT 1200.

 >  im using a simple vt240 and have tried every permutation 
 >on its  settings but to no avail.

 >  is there some way to tell my hayes to use 2400 so that the 
 >little red light under HS  (high speed) comes on and my eyes dont 
 >fall asleep with the 1200 ?  

   Are you sure that your VT-240 is sending the dial command at 2400 bps?  As 
soon as a Hayes Smartmodem 2400 gets an "AT" command at 2400 bps, the HS 
light comes on.  If the command is issued at a lower speed, the HS indicator 
switches off.
 

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Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
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