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Re: modem froze

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From: scr...
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:09
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>   mjt...@tortilla.engr.ucdavis.edu (Marcellus James Tabor) writes:
>  i was playing doom2 on modem yesterday with a friend in davis (we both 
>  live in daivs), and the modem froze up. it did this the first time for 
>  about 15 seconds, and the second time for 2 seconds, and then the third 
>  time it did it for 30 seconds and then hung us both up . what gives?  
>  pleaes tell me what went wrong and if you have experienced this

It did this to me when I had the modem set at 38400.  I lowered it to 19200 and it worked fine after that.  
Didn't really notice any difference in speed either.

Scott
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