>On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Eddie Fry wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a customer running a Mac with a Global Village Gold modem.
>> Does anybody have an init string for these? She is having problems
>> connecting.
>
>In addition to the below, don't forget to drop the port speed to like
>19200...
That's rotten advice, which is strange coming from you, Sherwood. You'll
cause a lot of problems with that one. Just makes Macs look bad, and we
all know Apple doesn't need any help doing that. They're doing fine all
by themselves on that front.
Macs older than a centris/quadra should probably hang around the 38400
mark (this would include LC, LCII, LCIII, performa 400 - 46x and 55x, the
entire MacII series, and Mac Classics). Centris/quadra owners (as well as
performa 47x and 57x owners) can go up to 57600. PowerMac owners can go
all the way to 115200 (they can support much higher than that actually).
Global Village's Gold (14.4) modems will be happy at 38400 on most any
Mac. Platinum (28.8/33.6) should be at 57600 most all the time, except
for the older Macs which should only go to 38400. GV's modems don't seem
to like the 115200 settings, but I haven't had a chance to play with 56k
versions yet. Bronze (2400) and Silver (9600) GV modems shouldn't be used
for inet access if you ask me (nor should any modem less than a 14.4).
>http://www.globalvillage.com/support/.exciteproto/tpfaq.html
>
>AT&F1 for TelePort Silver, Gold, Gold II, and Mercury
>AT&F1 for the Platinum
AT&F1 will work almost every time. Flow control should be set to CTS Only.
Of course you can get around all this crap by updating to a more current
version of the MacOS. Open Transport replaces MacTCP, and OT/PPP replaces
MacPPP (or FreePPP). OT/PPP auto-selects init-strings and port speeds for
you. No need to worry. Just select your modem from the list in the Modem
control panel. MacOS 7.6 shipped with OT/PPP, as does MacOS 8. For System
7.5.x and 7.1 owners, you can find it online at www.apple.com.
If anyone else has Mac related questions re using PPP, let me know in
private email.
Jon
jon@vcnet.com