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To: Brian Chew <bgchew@securenet.net>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: USRobotic 28.8 vi Modem Troubles 
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:00:45 +0100
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Brian Chew wrote in message ID
<3173AC08.1B5E@securenet.net>:
> Hello! 
> I am looking for some info to get a 28.8 Sportster VI  modem to make 
> connection and stay online with out loosing carrier. Unless the modem 
> makes a 14.4 connection it looses carrier when I call the Internet there 
> seems to be a compatibility problem does anyone know where it is? Is it 
> my modem or the modem at the other end? I am getting frustrated and have 
> contacted USRobotics and it hasn't helped and the guy on the Server at 
> my connection says it's my modem, apparently there was a problem with 
> older USRobotic 28.8's but it's not supposed to be a problem with the 
> new ones...
> Any help would be appreciated

I have one of these modems (a Sportster VI), and am dialing into a set
of Ascend terminal servers (which have built in modems or something, I
can't remember), and only have a problem of the line being dropped if
I'm idle for too long (iijppp's idle timout). Apart from that it works
fine (there are occasions where line noise (I think) cause it to fail
to negotiate a 28k8 link, but that's expected)

Gary