CompuServe Messages

After getting the phone company to clean up my line (yes, they actually did it…), and after talking my job into buying a 2400 baud modem for the MicroVAX, I gleefully went to buy a new Progressive Peripherals Baud Bandit w/ MNP5. It's a nice modem, with good documentation. I have no trouble with it getting to CompuServe, to local BBS's, or to a number at Encore Corp. However, I just can't access the MicroVAX!!! I can access the MV with other 1200 and 2400 baud modems (w/o MNP5, though), and my friends can reach the MV with my modem from their homes, but !I! can't use MY modem from MY house 😐 . I've tried all sorts of modem settings, including turning off the error correction ("at/n0"). If I dial the MV at 1200 baud it connects, but the characters are all way up in the ASCII set (as if parity were wrong, or something). If I dial at 2400 baud the Baud Bandit won't even get a carrier detect, even though I can hear the "squeel and squawk" over the speaker!! Frustration. The Pro. Peripherals folks don't have a clue; they are going to try dialing the MicroVAX themselves, with one of their modems. In the meantime, has anyone got an idea??? Mucho obliged. John