> I have yet to see anyone articulate a reason why the &w is important, and
> why the same string without the &w is not just as good.
The &W is important in case the modem gets confused, or unplugged
temporarily, to ensure the modem's NVRAM defaults will be the settings
that you want. Saves having to tickle it via a manual reset of the port.
Of course, if all modems were perfect, and never got confused, this would
be unnecessary. And, as has been beaten to death there, the writes are
infrequent enough so as not to wear out the NVRAM.
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