Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

Ok... frustration has got the best of me here.

In the past couple of weeks I've been connecting with my Visor using an external modem, a Xircom Springport, and as of today, a Thinmodem. In all cases, I can't seem to cruise the web using AvantGo, ProxiWeb, EudoraWeb, or Browse-It. I enter a URL or bookmark, the apps all give me feedback like Sending... and Awaiting Response..., etc, but more often then not, I just get time-outs. Also, using MultiMail, Eudora, and TGPostman, I inevitably get time-out errors trying to connect to any of my 3 mail servers.

Since these symptoms have been identical regardless of what device I'm connecting with, I'm starting to think it might be my ISP connection with CompuServe.

Is anyone else using CompuServe for dial-up through a Visor?

Can anyone help shed some light as to what might be the problem here?

I'm frustrated because nothing I've tried seems to work. It can't possibly be that 3 different modem devices are/were bad. What gives???

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Posts: 4

Compuserve, similar to AOL, is incompatible with the Palm OS. All that you can do with them is access their e-mail, if you download their e-mail application. You can find it at: http://www.compuserve.com/mailcenter/palmmail/

and click on the link "Download CS Mail It's Easy!"

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

I understand CompuServe as a service is not available through the handheld. However, I have been using a CompuServe (now referred to as Classic???) dial-up as a PPP connection for years. It's how I connect from my home PC... I rarely use the actual service anymore.

The script (CIS.SCP) that Windows DUN uses sets port rates to 7-E-1 and then back to 8-None-1 during login. This step can't be replicated in the Network Pref's script on the Visor. I can establish the PPP connection through the Visor but after that is when the problems with the time-outs occur.

The reason I suspect that it's the CIS connection is that I can use AOL Mail with its direct dial with no problems at all. It's the PPP stuff that isn't working.

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