Re: Help with USRobotics modem!

Robert Shannon Doty (rdoty@netaxs.com)
Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:11:11 EST

Hi, Emmett. I've seen these types of problems before--and I can almost
guarantee that you've used a wrong setting somewhere. Are you SURE that
your service provider recommends a vt100 setting (there are many
possibilities). Tell your service provider about the problem--they can
tell you EXACTLY how your software settings should be...

-Robert Shannon Doty
rdoty@netaxs.com

Emmett Hoops <sharonsm@nylink.org> wrote:
> We recently purchased a USRobotics 14,4 Sportster modem to use with our
> PowerMac 5200. We use the software that came with it, which is Mac Comm
> Center or something like that. Terminal emulation is set to vt100, speed to
> 57000 as per the instructions (why is it that to function properly on a Mac,
> the speed has to be set so high???)
> We use a dial-up online service, NYLINK, which uses an entirely text-based
> interface.
> The trouble is this: when we access the Web, using Lynx, we get garbled
> messages. Text from one screen flows into another, and after a few screens,
> the text is unreadable. Oddly, a piece of html that I mailed to my account
> appeared free of such errors. What's going on?