Re: QESTELE Data Area

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carol Collins wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you to everyone who responded to my problem with the Motorola
> modem.
> 
> >> Change the QESTELE data area to 18003270949 and your problems go
> away.
> >>Just > drop the SST9:
> 
> >You can't drop the '9' - that's required to get an outside line.
> >You may need a pause after it, so '9,18003270949' should work.
> 
> Armed with the information that nothing needed to preceed the
> phone number, I tried '9,18003270949'.  No luck.  I requested and
> received a fax from Motorola, which indicated commas are not
> allowed.  I retried ':', which the modem manual defines as the
> character for "Wait for dial tone".  Still no luck.  Finally, I
> substituted 'W', which the modem manual defines as the character
> for "Wait for second type of dial tone".  Voila!  I am now in the
> midst of a PTF download at breakneck speed! <g>
> 

Yes - it's unfortunate that the fact a modem supports V.25bis autodial
capability does not mean it supports the same commands in that mode that
the IBM modems (5853/7855/7852) do.  I guess that wasn't part of the
'standard'.


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