Chapter 6 –
Chapter 6 – S-Registers
Certain modem values, or parameters, are stored in memory locations called
S-Registers
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S0 | 1 ring | country dep. | Number of Rings to | |
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S1 | 1 ring | 0 | Ring Counter: Counts the rings that have occurred. | |
S2 | decimal | 43 (+) | Escape Character: Sets ASCII code for the escape | |
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| character. Values greater than 127 disable escape. |
S3 | decimal | 13 (^M) | Carriage Return Character: Sets the ASCII code for the carriage return character. | |
S4 | decimal | 10 (^J) | Line Feed Character: Sets the ASCII code for the line feed character. | |
S5 | decimal | 8 (^H) | Backspace Character: Sets the ASCII code for the | |
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| character. Values greater than 32 disable backspace. |
S6 | seconds | country dep. | Wait Time Before Blind Dialing or for Dial Tone: Sets the time the modem | |
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| waits after it goes |
S7 | seconds | country dep. | Wait Time for Carrier, Silence, or Dial Tone: Sets the time the modem waits for a | |
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| carrier signal before aborting a call. Sets the wait for silence time for the @ dial |
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| modifier. Sets the time the modem waits for a dial tone after encountering W in the |
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| dial string. |
S8 | seconds | 2 | Pause Time for Dial Delay: Sets the length of the pause caused by a comma | |
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| character in a dialing command. |
S9 | 100 ms | 6 | Carrier Detect Response Time: Sets the time, in tenths of a second that the | |
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| carrier must be present before the modem considers it valid. |
S10 | 100 ms | 14 | Lost Carrier to Hang Up Delay: Sets how long a carrier signal must be lost before | |
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| the modem disconnects. |
S11 | 1 ms | country dep. | DTMF Tone Duration: Sets spacing and duration of dialing tones. | |
S12 | 20 ms | 50 | Escape Prompt Delay (EPD): Defines the maximum period, in fiftieths of second, | |
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| allowed between receipt of the last character of the three escape character |
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| computer (escape code guard time). |
S13 | decimal | 0, | 42 (*) | Remote Configuration Escape Character: Sets the ASCII code for the remote |
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| configuration escape character. ATS13=0&W disables remote configuration. For |
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| use with the MT5600BA and MT5600BR only. |
S15 | minutes | 0, | 30 | Dialup Backup: Sets the length of time the modem waits after making a |
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| connection before it checks for a restored lease line. Zero disables dial backup. For |
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| use with the MT5600BA and MT5600BR only. |
S17 | minutes | 1 | Dialup Connection: Sets the length of time the modem waits after a lease line fails | |
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| before it attempts a |
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| MT5600BR only. |
S24 | seconds | 0 | Sleep Inactivity Timer: Sets the number of seconds that the modem operates in | |
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| normal mode with no detected telephone or serial port activity before it enters low- |
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| power sleep mode. The timer is reset upon any serial port or telephone line activity. |
S25 | 10 ms (async) | 5 | Delay to DTR OFF: Sets the length of time that the modem1 ms | |
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| (sync) ignores DTR while taking the action specified by &D . |
S26 | 10 ms | 1 | RTS to CTS Delay: When &R0 is commanded, sets the time after detecting an | |
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| synchronous operation only. |
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