SETTING UP THE US ROBOTICS v.34 SPORTSTER by Dan Dalrymple Since there doesn't seem to be a lot of "setups" out on the big bbs' for the USR Sportster 28,8 v.34 modems here's my 2 cents worth... This is the text of an email sent to a friend of mine who operates one of the oldest BBSs in our area. He uses a 14,4 v.32bis modem (I don't know what kind) and wanted to know how I had set-up my USR external Sportster v.34 28,800 modem. There is not much on the bbs' about setting these modems up so here is my contribution. I hope that this file can help someone else set their USR v.34 up. I don't claim to have this modem set-up perfectly, but this seems to be the best so far and I'm really happy with this modem. I don't operate my own bbs so I use this modem only for calling into other bbs'. Accepting calls from others may or may not work with these settings. I would apprec- iate hearing from anyone who can improve on my settins here, since I too am interested in getting "all there is" out of this great modem. Thanks, Dan Dalrymple, 5751 S. Honeytown Rd, Wooster OH 44691. I am on ExecPC about 3 or 4 times a week and also am "Go2Erie" on AOL. I have been a member of CompuServe for 8 years but seldom log on... My work phone is 216-698-6403 or home number is 216-698-3186. Please let me know if I left something out or if you can improve on these settings. Here's my e-mail to my friend John: Hi John, I'm using my registered version of Qmodem v4.2F for a com program and basically first use the closest "Quick modem setup" that I find to my v.34 Sportster which happens to be the "Quick" modem setup for a Sportster 14,4 v.32bis. All that I change after setting my Qmodem up as a 14,4 Sportster is the init string and I enable the 16550 UART on the com port since this modem is external. My new init string for my USR Sportster 28,8 v.34 is: ATS27=128&A0&B1&H1&R2&K3X3 (in Qmodem the return is ^M) By the way, I don't have a 16550 UART installed in my system yet, but I set Qmodem up for one anyhow. I never d/l'd any bad zips yet but I run Qmodem directly in DOS 6.22 and not through Windows. My UART is just a 16450 but my machine is fairly fast being a ISA bus 486-50 and the com ports are set for my system's maximum of 9600. I'm getting downloads of ZIP files at 22-2600cps and TXT files at 5-6000cps depending on how "loose" they are. I'll write that INIT string into my modem's nram after I think that it's perfected... Here is an ati6 after our last connect, you can see that we DID connect at 14,400 even though my connect message showed only 9600. (s27=128 does this)... ati6 USRobotics Sportster 28800 V.34 Fax Link Diagnostics... Chars sent 35 Chars Received 11287 Chars lost 0 Octets sent 35 Octets Received 5816 Blocks sent 35 Blocks Received 113 Blocks resent 0 Retrains Requested 0 Retrains Granted 0 Line Reversals 0 Blers 6 Link Timeouts 0 Link Naks 0 Data Compression V42BIS 2048/32 Equalization Long Fallback Disabled Protocol LAPM Speed 14400 Last Call 00:03:42 Disconnect Reason is Loss of Carrier (I terminated normally) John, here is an ati4, showing how my modem is set at this time. Our last connect...........dsd ati4 USRobotics Sportster 28800 V.34 Fax Settings... B0 E1 F1 M1 Q0 V1 X3 Y0 BAUD=115200 PARITY=N WORDLEN=8 DIAL=HUNT ON HOOK &A0 &B1 &C1 &D2 &G0 &H1 &I0 &K3 &M4 &N0 &P0 &R2 &S0 &T5 &U0 &Y1 S00=001 S01=000 S02=043 S03=013 S04=010 S05=008 S06=002 S07=060 S08=002 S09=006 S10=007 S11=070 S12=050 S13=000 S14=000 S15=000 S16=000 S17=000 S18=000 S19=000 S20=000 S21=010 S22=017 S23=019 S24=000 S25=005 S26=000 S27=128 S28=008 S29=020 S30=000 S31=000 S32=000 S33=000 S34=000 S35=000 S36=014 S37=000 S38=000 S39=000 S40=000 S41=000 S42=000 S43=200 S44=015 S45=000 S46=000 S47=000 S48=000 S49=000 S50=000 S51=000 S52=000 S53=000 S54=064 S55=000 S56=016 S57=000 LAST DIALED #: T2640951 JOHN, here is an ati3, showing my modems specs........dsd ati3 Sportster 28800/Fax V6.0 OK ati7 Configuration Profile... Product type US/Canada External Options V32bis,V.FC,V.34 Fax Options Class 1/Class 2.0 Clock Freq 20.16Mhz Eprom 256k Ram 32k Supervisor date 11/30/94 DSP date 11/29/94 Supervisor rev 6.0.4 DSP rev 1.0.5 OK ati0 2886 OK ati1 461E OK ati2 OK OK ati3 Sportster 28800/Fax V6.0 OK John, these are my nram settings. (not that these matter much, since I had changed the X and the &K settings for the last connect.....dsd ati3 Sportster 28800/Fax V6.0 Anyhow, the modem seems to be working well now. It logs to about every modem that I've tried. My connect message always shows a 9600 baud "connect" no matter what speed I really connect at. There is not much avilable on the big boards yet as to how to set this modem up. As you can see, the ROM is only dated 11/30/94 which was only a couple of months back. I'll probably u/l this file to ExecPC to try to help new owners of this modem set it up. I really like this modem. It is external and I don't even have the 16550 UART on the comm port. I have never d/l'd a bad file yet but I don't run my com program through Windows. For a comm program, I use a registered copy of Qmodem v4.2F, running in DOS 6.22 on a 486-50 ISA bus machine. My phone lines out here "in the boonies" are not the greatest, to say the least. This USR Sportster 28,800 v.34 is doing better than any modem that I have ever owned at cleaning them up... I've owned a "bunch of 'em" My first was an external 300 baud screamer on a Sanyo 555 clone.