[wellylug] DSE Serial Modem Flow Control

[Jamie Dobbs]

Make sure you have a fully compliant modem cable and use hardware flow
control - soft flow-control is generally crap.

> hi all,
>
> I just got a DSE Electronics Serial 56k Modem
> (http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4207ba1c0067f898273fc0a87f9906e9/Product/View/XH1142)
>
>
> It works, except I can't seem to enable flow control. This is a problem,
> because when I try to upload anything, the modem gets the data sent to
> it too fast, and drops the packets. This makes it impossible to even
> send email.
>
>
> Can anyone give me some help here?
>
> I've tried using the &K4 command (to enable xon/xoff), but it doesn't
> appear to do work. :-(
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
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