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In my experience, the inability to lock on and hold a satellite signal has nothing to do with the server's failure to establish communication with the BMI box.
With a distance of some 100 ft from my satellite to my BMI box, I have encountered any number of satellite unlocks, without ever affecting the connection between the box and the PC. Incidentally, you can still receive data when the signal is unlocked, although it's obviously not to be trusted.
I'd check the COM port on your PC. Sounds like the problem might be there.
Good luck.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stewart [SMTP:mstew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:35 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Stupid Obscure Data Problem
I'm going for the obscure question of the month award. Does anybody know the
minimum voltage going into the computer for TS to hold on to a BMI Satellite
signal?
I've got TS on Win98 on a new AMD K6-2 333Mhz chip that keeps dropping the
signal, sometimes it will drop for a few seconds, sometimes for hours. It
will sync up ("Communication Established: Baud Rate Set") and then lose the
connection and cycle through the different baud rates trying to sync up
again. I get 9 volts out of the back of the BMI Converter, but am down to
about 7.5-7.7 at the computer.
I was told it was a Win98 registry problem. but, no, don't think so. Did a
hard disk reformat and reinstall of Win98 and TS last night. That didn't
make any difference.
Another idea...anybody know if the on board COM port could be the problem?
Thanks,
Mark
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