#9600 baud & WHAP!
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Ok,
I'm back with a question about my PPI 9600SA modem and WHAP! I have an
intermitant problem in which when downloading messages with WHAP!,
sometimes messages are repeated and sometimes whole threads. I have
noticed this while actually viewing the process, the screen will stop at
the same message several times in a row when doing disk writes to my
harddrive.
I asked the PPI people about this and they feel that it is a
software/computer hardware problem, one or both can't handle the 9600baud
speed. I do not have this problem when I use 2400 baud. I am using an
A500 with a standard 68000 cpu and a Xetec fastrak harddrive and 1 meg chip
and 4 megs fast ram. Any ideas, or am I destined to this problem?
-Rick Graff
I have the same thing with my 2000. I suspect Whap! is loading down the
CPU too much to handle the modem at speed. I usually log on at 2400 and
save the 9600 for downloading or grabbing short items. Incidentally,
JR-Comm works much better than Whap! for the latter, but isn't quite as
convenient. 🙂
Bill, K3OZM
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Bill,
Do you have a standard CPU in your 2000 or an accelerated CPU? I have been
told that WHAP! is much better at 9600 with a faster CPU, unfortunately
since I use the ATonce AT/PC emulator I can't upgrade my CPU. I'm saving
my pennies to buy a used 2000 at the end of the year so that I can up grade
the CPU and still use the ATonce.
-Rick Graff
Just the 68000.
Bill, K3OZM
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Rick,
One thing for you to check: make sure the modem is configured with
"AT&K3" to use RTS/CTS (hardware) flow control. Also, make sure you have
the 7-wire button selected in Whap. Also, change your serial preferences
to enable Hardware-handshaking. These changes can make a difference,
although I suspect there may still be some problems on a 68000.
Hope this helps….
…BobR
Bob,
The default is K3 so I assume I don't have to configure the modem for it
and the 7-wire button is selected. My serial preferences (I assume you
mean the systems PREF drawer) was set to XonXoff, I changed it to RTS/CTS.
I forgot that I had a serial preferences there since I'm so used to being
able to change these things from within a comm program <G>.
-Rick Graff