Re: (PM) Down/Admin modems and USWest provisioning

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Sat, 1 Nov 1997 13:16:12 -0600 (CST)

On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> > - Wink Start
>
> You may very well want to switch to immediate start. I finally got US
> West to start processing this order. The wink start timing on the PM3 is
> something like 140-240ms and US West, at least where we are in Gallup

I concur, that the starting may be the cause of your probs. altho wink is
preferred here.

> (a town near Greg here in New Mexico for the curious) is expecting it to
> be between something like 210-240ms only.. this seems to be causing a LOT
> of inital connection problems and perhaps contributing to the high-load
> disconnects on the other channels (no idea - going to find out when they
> switch it next week).
>
> > We are answering only modem calls on these lines (no ISDN).

> Weird.. c1 fixes the ADMIN problems.

2 of the 3 the admin problems.

> Yeah.. c1 also fixes some random disconnection problems.
>
> Right now we're seeing problems with almost always USR Telepath/Sportsters
> and some Practical Prepherials modems..

EXACTLY what we are seeing with those same brands.

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