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- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 and My Modem Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.033621.14496@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:36:21 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <1hl5tiINN8cd@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
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- In article <1hl5tiINN8cd@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
- >
- > I did do things like setting IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 100, and IDLE_SECONDS
- > to the max, but this doesnt work.
-
- This will only work for *one* DOS session. If you do this for all of
- them....you get the situation you are describing. You can't give them *all*
- top priority. Only one. Try making only your comms session the special one and
- reset all the others to the defaults.....they will be slower....but they
- should still run.
-
- > My modem speed is 2400. this problem occurs at 300-2400 baud. It is
- > insanely ridiculous. I have duplicated this problem on a 386/25
- > with 8 megs ram. When I have a dos comm prog going, and doing a download
- > both machines perform about the SAME. (wow!). I am NOT over commiting memory,
- > as my DOS taks have 0 dpmi mem, 0 xms, and 0 ems, and 640k of "regular
- > mem". It doesnt matter how many apps are open .. 2 or 10! .. the performance
- > is the same: extra slow. Alot of OS/2 progs are fine, but like I said,
- > some freeze until the transfer is over.
-
- Why aren't you using an OS/2 comms program? They are far better. I use TE/2
- v1.21 and HyperACCESS/5 v3.0. I have an NS16550AFN UART and download in the
- background at 1700cps.....with no problems. HyperACCESS/5 is hard to beat for
- features....though TE/2 seems to have a better VT100.
-
- > This problem may cause me to get another OS. I like OS/2, but I find
- > it inexcusable that it does this kind of stuff at LOW modem speeds.
- > I might have to get MSWin or something, because I have used it doing
- > the same things, and I have no problem. I wish ibm would fix this.
-
- Why not just get a better comms program? It is in your power to "fix" this
- yourself! BTW....I had no trouble whatever with a 14.4K modem using Telix 3.15
- and the new 3.20.....both work fine.
-
- Maybe you have tweeked/fixed your system to the point where it no longer
- functions properly.
-
- One of my favourite jokes is about the systems programmer who fixed the
- problems with the system....now it doesn't work at all.....:-)
-
- > Also, I have tried the SIO drivers, but they didnt work well.
-
- They have a couple of problems.....but generally work OK for me....(v0.20)
-
- > One possible thing I thought of is that the comm programs may write
- > every block to disk, thus causing major device lags. However,
- > may HD light doesnt go off often enough for that.
- >
- > Someone, please help, and Hopefully IBM will do something. I am not going
- > to spend hundreds of dollars to get a modem with nifty buffering chips/
- > If OS2 cant handle modems that dont have 16550s even at 300
- > /1200/2400 baud on a *486*, its not very good.
-
- OS/2 works fine with a 2400 modem on my machine at work....but I use an OS/2
- comms program. I have actually had two modems downloading simultaneously on
- that machine while I was zipping up a hard drive to the network on the same
- system - all in the background while I checking my CD-ROM for product info in
- a DOS window.
-
- > However, I am hoping there is something that can be done.
-
- There is, and - best of all - you don't have to wait for IBM to do anything.
- Get an OS/2 comms program.
-
- Steve
-
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