V90 Troubles

[David Croxford]

Does anybody know the actual status of V90 support on freeserve. I know they
claim to be up and running but my modem keeps reporting very low rates. This
connection gave a report of CARRIER 31200. If I disable automoding I usually
get a carrier and then before any connect I get a NO CARRIER and the modem
hangs up. I have only managed to connect with a 56000 carrier once and that
was via minicom.

David Croxford

[Duncan Clarke]

Sorry to jump in here, but how do you check this? When connecting, I
recieve a lot of messages from chat and ppp in /var/log/messages but
none showing the connection speed. Is there something I can add to my
chat script to tell me?

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'ABORT' 'BUSY'
'ABORT' 'ERROR'
'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER'
'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE'
'ABORT' 'Invalid Login'
'ABORT' 'Login incorrect'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'ATDT08450796699'
'CONNECT' ''
'ogin:' 'fuzzyhead.freeserve.co.uk'
'ord:' '********'
'TIMEOUT' '5'
'~--' ''
'\~' ''
---------------8<------------------

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[David Croxford]

I had to put W1 in my init string to get the modem to report speeds as well
as just CONNECT i.e. ATZW1 where you have ATZ.

David

[nomad]

If you remember the old BBS and terminal packages like Telix and Terminate
then you will already know
what I am talking about (hope fully).

You can get your modem to report a number of things on connect not only the
speed between the
2 modems but things like parity and flow control.

Often you had fine tune your modems init strings for certain BBS's this
still happens today
I can get a faster connects by adding at commands to my modem's init string.

(for a list of at commands you should look in your modems manual )

David Croxford <hert...@dcroxford.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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