Hi guys, I'm looking for anyone who might have any idea on Init strings etc for dialup 56k modems?

I'm trying to help a friend with an old dinosaur Compaq EP series P600 computer system, and for some reason when it starts to dial onto the internet, the dialtone is clearly heard, and then it continues to hold the dial-tone noise even while dialing the numbers. Consequently nothing ends up happening and the dial-in session terminates with a server-non-response error.

Anyone remember the old days of Initialization strings, and if you do, what's the strings to terminate dialtone through the voice enumerator? I hope that would be the problem....

I've been having no luck with this one, reinstalled windows XP twice, and spent about 3 hours odd searching through forums to see if anyone has any similar problems, so if anyone has any light to shed on this one I'd be very much grateful....

man I was a whizz with init strings in the old days with my trusty netcomm roadster. What brand of modem is it?

I used to have a s***load of strings written down that I used to give to guys on Powerup in the old modem Quake days, the one I had for the Netcomm was a hooter I used to get pings like 120-140 with it. :) ah the memories...I'll see what I can dig up..

AT&F AT&S

ATDT

f*** noes thats all I remember.

28.8 @ 90ms (go squirrel internet!) -- they had a full E1 with almost no customers...

sigh, carnage @ voyager :)

OMG squirrel was my first internet company.

Banskia 14400 :D

netcomm roadster ftw!!

I still have one back home in Aus for when the ADSL went down

might add it's an internal! :P

NetComm IN5699_5 is the model
one of the hardware modems (not a dodgy soft-flex thing)

Started my interwebs back on Global Info-Links (now iTEL) at 9600baud!
shyeah!

Mate well have a look over here. That has the latest drivers/manual for that modem. It also has a link to a specific set of init strings for that particular modem.

last edited by Psycho! at 22:16:04 15/Dec/06

swann modems were the best man

psycho.... I feel like a tard :P thank you for that. :)

gah
unfortunately, nothing in there is much help to the problem :/ new drivers fix nothing. and those AT strings aren't quite the one's I'm looking for. :/

I might bang up netcomm tech support monday instead.
although the lazy farks are only open from 9-5!

Have a read here in Netcomm's knowledge base

Another guy over here outlines some specific strings and tweaks for that modem he used in optomising his CS gameplay...might help.

a snippet of info I found...

Known Problems

Netcomm internal modem (IN5699 Rev 2)
With Windows XP the driver needed is version 8.18. Some modems may not have had this included in the distribution. Without it, the modem cannot detect dial-tone. and won't attempt to connect.

...dunno if that narrows it down.

And a whole ton of stuff in a here> seriously the more I read about it, sounds like a good paperweight to me.

:P

hahahhahah i remember i bought a banksia wave 56 SP modem... f*** i thought it was fast.. getting pings of 130-160 on powerup server quake2

hey psycho I've got an init string for ya: ,,|.

pwnd

X3
AT&FX3

are both generic strings that have pulled me out of a lot of situations (I used to work on an ISP helpdesk and had to deal with this sort of thing a lot).

Also turn down the modem speed from 115200 to 57600 and turn off error control / flow control. You can also unticked wait for dial tone before dialling but obviously it is doing the initial dial... but it won't hurt.

/edit: also if you really know what your doing you can enable the pre dial terminal window to see exactly what the modem it doing when it's dialling.

last edited by Nailbomb at 01:23:11 16/Dec/06

mmm, modems

take me back my to my avtek 300/300 1200/75 baud days dialing into VIATEL

good times

i used to have an init string that would make my 56 modem connect 112000
true story

Started my interwebs back on Global Info-Links (now iTEL) at 9600baud!
shyeah!

In 2001!

Sounds like it's not recognising the dial tone - try ATM0 (zero) to ignore that dial tone detection.

ATX1

then

ATDT Phone number


Most modems default to ATX4 but ATx1 will force the modem to ignore dial and busy tones and force an ATH0 (go off hook) / ATDT (dial number)

No wait, my bad.. ATM0 does speaker. ATX? is the dial tone thingie.