ATH0 modem dropout

From: Robert Moss <RM@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:13:26 +1000

This has been confirmed to work on many modems

The fix is the following AT command:

ATS2=255

This forces a pause of 1 second between +++ and ATH0, otherwise the command
is ignored

>On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 01:02:52PM -0400, Claude Morin wrote:
>> Stefan Rompf <srompf@telemation.de> wrote:
>> > +--------------------------------------------------------------+
>> > | Customer: I'm using Windows '95. Hotline: Ok, got that one. |
>> > | Customer: It's not working. Hotline: You already said that. |
>> > +--------------------------------------------------------+++ATH0
>>
>> ^^^^^^^
>> Are there still modems (after all these years) which don't implement
>> guard times before and after the "+++" and will disconnect whenver
>> someone reads this message? Or is this intended to cut off some random
>> poor bastard whose connection happens to pause for at least a second
>> before and after the "+++" characters?
>
>I've been told that recently on bugtraq this discussion came up, and yes -
>some modems will croak on this. This is second hand, though.
>
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Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 22:14:46 MDT

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