UP9600

[jdryyz]

Go it working at 9600 eventually ..

For some reason I was under the impression I had to AT&K1 before switching baud.. This was incorrect.

It just works.

This is probably why you were under that impression. Per the manual:

"Q: Is the WiModem capable of more than 2400 baud?
A: Yes. The well known “UP9600” hack is built into the WiModem. You will
need to enable the hardware handshaking to use this feature at 9600 baud."

Like you, though, I found that I did not need to set AT&K1 nor did I need to set hardware handshaking in my term program. 9600 seems to be fine without it. I am sure it will be needed if I ever wanted to try 38.4k, however. 


I made my settings changes in this order: 1) First the WiModem (AT*B9600), then I loaded the UP9600 driver, then set the term baud rate to 9600. I also encountered freezes when I changed to the UP9600 driver. I somehow got it set without a freeze, the saved the term configuration right away. I am using Striketerm 2014 Final but had good results with Novaterm 9.6 also.

On a different subject-- I have failed to download a single file from any C64 BBS I have connected to thus far. I remember Punter being more friendly and automatic, but I am always told to go start my download and then manually name my file. Data starts to trickle in but I then get a bunch of retries. Too bad more C64 BBSes aren't capable of using ZModem. Our terminal programs are. 

Hmmm....I am wondering If I can choose Multi-Punter even for a single download.