Serial Overruns :o(

[old.cspiby]

I've got a diamond 56e pro and i'm experiencing lots of serial overruns

, does anyone know hoe to solve this? Also is BTI any good for gaming at barrysworld? What kind pings do ya get?

 

[old.cspiby]

Help!

 

[old.Exo]

BTi will sux0re on a 56k for gaming.

Dunno about your other problem, I leave my techy brain behind when I leave work mate

Exo

 

[Guest]

A serial overrun, basically, is when the data is arriving faster than your serial port can handle it (stuff is arriving before the port has moved passed on the previous data).

Try turning the receive slider down a notch (it's in port properties I think). Failing that, limit your connection speed. Your manual should tell you how to do that.

 

[DApea!]

Well i spose you could first of all post in the 'Help' forum

Then, you need to change your Com Port settings (presuming you got 95/98).

Right click on your old Mr computer thing, then click on properties, then the Device manager tab. Find the com & serial bit and double click on the Com port ur modem is on, look at all the settings in there in all the tabs and you should find somthing with a baud rate on it, bung it at 115200 or whatever it is and thats ur prob.

Happens with some modems and some configs.

Soz for the scetchy info but im using NT here and cant remember exactly what the tabs and menus are called atm.

um, yeh.. :/

 

[old.Leon[LMRZ]]

Control panel -> System -> Device Manager -> Ports (COM & LPT) -> (select the port on which you have your modem) -> Port Settings -> Advanced...

Make sure the 'use FIFO' box is checked, then play with the sliders. High values should solve your problem. Otherwise, I have no clue.


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[old.[GA] Shovel]

One other idea - go to the previously mentioned properties of the Com Port, and once there check that the speed drop down is set right too - It will look like the one in the modem properties, but are independent of each other, that should help.

 

[old.cspiby]

It hasn't helped at all

I got fed-up and reformatted, seems better now, at the moment my modem is set to 11500bps, and the recieve buffer is 1 notch off the top, it still overruns sometimes but not very often.

 

[old.[GA] Shovel]

Turn that down - it is too high

I think the options are somethign like 46, 64, and then 104 (or similar) you want one which is over 56 - but not too high, otherwise the modem will b0rk

easy, I hope.