> Sorry but I (personally) consider this slightly bad advice.
>
> Adding &w to extra settings in Win95 means that every time the user
> connects, the current config is saved to the modems flash.
>
> As flash RAM only has a finite number of writes before it can fail you
> are best to just put &f (or &f`1) in extra settings, this resets the
> modem to (a) factory default but doesn't write anything to flash.
The first flash chips from Intel had 100,000 write cycles if I remember
correctly. Later releases were supposed to have much more.
If your user connects 10 times per day, the flash should last at
least 10,000 days, or about 27+ years... Not a problem.
Although the delay in erasing the sector with configuration might
be a problem. It takes a LONG time to erase flash (1 second +/-).
At least with the Intel and AMD chips I used to use...
All the best,
-Richard
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