22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
3:51 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Colan Mitchell wrote:
Thanks for the extensive reply. I would love it if a
Telco Van was left
unattended outside my house! Anyway, yes I've a second line and what
happens is that it does ring but when I answer it (feeling rather besides
myself) there is dead air. What I'm dialing, other than myself, is a
freenet as it can handle 300 bps. That seems to be academic though as
there doesn't seem to be any indication of an attempt at handshaking. The
freenet takes more than 2 or three rings to connect as well.
Ok, well that gives a clue (the fact that freenet takes more than 2 rings
to connect, which is dumb but oh well).
Perhaps the Informer is suffering from premature rejection, ie. it's
timing out too fast when it doesn't see a carrier within two rings. Does
the Informer use AT commands to dial the modem? If so then it probably
has an S parameter to set the carrier timeout period. I don't know what
the S command is though right off hand and my modem is tied up right now
writing this memo to you so I can't do an ATS?. Maybe I have a modem
manual nearby.
Ok, here it is. ATS6 stores the number of seconds the modem will wait for
carrier. The default is generally 60. But to be sure, enter in ATS6=60
before dialing the freenet number and see if that changes anything.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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