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WiModem232 updates

Okay, Jim Drew says he's getting ready to do another fairly significant update and he's looking for suggestions as to improvements and new things to add.

A few things he's added per my suggestions just recently were the serial port activity timer and a hard timer cutoff. He also rewrote the Zmodem code after finding one major bug and that has (apparently) fixed most of the upload/download problems.

After his request, I put in for an increase in the phonebook - from 10 to 20 entries. Also, I asked for a command to show the IP addresses of the last 10 callers.

So...anyone else got any suggestions and I'll pass them along to Jim in that message thread. Here's your chance folks - speak up now! :)

PS Or just go to his website and join in here:

https://www.cbmstuff.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=841&page=11

7 comments

7 Comments

darklord

Nov 14, 2022

Oh, BTW - new update is out - here's what Jim has to say about it:

"Ok, new version is available. ATI5 will log the last 10 IP addresses that called, including anything in the BANNED CONNECTION list. I also made the phone book hold 25 entries. I could make it hold more but the issue is that if you use AT&Z? to see the list, it could scroll the top most entries off the display before you could see them! I could make the logged IP addresses list longer if 10 is not enough."

SO yeah guys - 25 entry phone book is a GO. 😀

darklord

Nov 13, 2022

I'm thinking I've only got 3 WiModem232's and they are all in use now.

So...I really need one for backup, don't you think? 😀

tillek

Nov 13, 2022

Replying to

Well, I think I have like.. what... 7? 8? Plus the commodore version.... And I might get one more (non-oled display) for another project.... So yeah, get another!

darklord

Nov 14, 2022

Replying to

I'll have to work on that - maybe next payday! :)

tillek

Nov 13, 2022

Thanks for this... I'll have to get my laundry list ready.

bf2k+

Nov 12, 2022

Do I understand correctly that the WiModem has ZModem built in?

darklord

Nov 13, 2022

Replying to

Not really sure about "Zmodem built in" but to quote Jim directly about what was fixed (and maybe explain it better):

"You might also want to try your WiModem232 to WiModem232 uploads/downloads for Zmodem. I found a serious bug due to an improper data type that affected transfer chunks over 256 bytes. Apparently we didn't have hardly any cases where transfers were exceeding 256 byte. See the list of changes in the history."

"Now that I have actually discovered the problem with local transfers (like random crashes and Zmodem failures), I am going to be rewriting the TCP/IP code (again) to remove all of the hacks I put in place over the years to try to fix these issues."

Hope this helps. 😀