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- From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
- Subject: Re: Digicom Scout modem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.005733.12727@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:57:33 GMT
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- Dave McLane (davidg@aegis.or.jp) wrote:
- : The manual says that *G0 disables the adaptive handshake, so I got
- : the feeling that it would either make the CONNECT at the max speed
- : or give up. But mabye not, could you explain the difference between
- : *G0 and *G1 in some detail?
-
- The manual is not completely correct in this respect. Try connecting
- with *G0 on a bad line, with lets say signal quality 4 to 5. Most
- likely it will result in a connection, but at maybe 12,000 bps or so.
- Compared with *G1 (the default setting) *G0 will raise the threshold
- before a lower speed is negotiated in the initial handshake, but not
- completely disable the adaptive handshake. Most users, I estimate
- maybe 95% dont need *G0 from what I can tell. For about a dozen or
- so users I know it makes a big difference since it results in 14,400
- bps connects where the default *G1 connected lower.
-
- I dont usually recommend *G0. Only if I get a report that the Scout+
- will not connect at 14,400 bps somewhere, and the signal quality is
- 5+ or better, will it work well. If its 5 or below, then it will result
- in higher speeds, like 12,000 bps instead of 9600 bps, but the line
- does then not allow 14,400 bps.
-
- All this is done with *Q1 by the way. Changing the signal quality
- action to other settings opens another dimension.
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