Re: A Livingston default modem string is bad for a USR modem

Joe Hartley (jh@metheny.brainiac.com)
Sun, 10 Nov 96 18:45:14 EST

> I am sorry but you came in part way through the thread. I was talking about
> *dialout*, not *dialin*. When you are dialing out, you often know perfectly
> well what sort of modem is at the other end. And if it happens to be one
> that supports V.32 or MNP, the person configuring the dialout would be
> foolish not to *force* the connection to be error-correcting.

So you want the basic setup string, as suggested by Livingston, to
be optimal for dialout, error-correction only? It seems to me that
the percentage of users who set up Portmasters and modems that would
want that functionality is extremely small.

You've got the opportunity to enter your own setup string. Putting
the NVRAM writing aside (it was answered to my satisfaction months ago),
the default string is exactly what the majority of PM users seem to
need.

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