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- From: catcher@buffnet.net (Mike Cherven)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
- Subject: Re: The most difficult comm. prob. in the world - $30 reward for solution
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 05:21:17 GMT
- Organization: The Dark Side BBS
- Distribution: world
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- References: <4e0qv7$ud@oracle.damerica.net> <DLuvo7.Hz9@pen.k12.va.us>
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- I don't know if Win95 uses MSS values, but if so,
- try changing the MSS. It fixed the same problem for me
- with Trumpet. I now use an MSS size of 512, and all
- is well.
-
- In article <DLuvo7.Hz9@pen.k12.va.us>
- cctaylor@pen.k12.va.us (Clover C. Taylor) wrote:
-
- > Reggie (reggie@community.net ) writes:
- >> imber@maniform.com (David G. Imber) wrote:
- >>
- >> >No, this is not a joke. It may seem crass, but I assure
- >> >you this offer is made with every good intention. I am SO
- >> >frustrated by my inability to get to the bottom of a Win95
- >> >comm. mystery that I will send anyone, anywhere US$30 if they
- >> >can provide a solution. The $30 amount is arbitrary. If I were
- >> >a wealthy person I'd offer more, such is my frustration. I
- >> >simply don't think I can answer this one on my own, and it's
- >> >burning me up.
- >>
- >> > Please don't refer me to the standard answers. I've
- >> >been through hell with the standards, even tried modifying
- >> >RWIN, DefaultTTL and MTU settings, to no avail.
- >>
- >> > I'll try to provide all relevant details. Feel free
- >> >to probe for more info.
- >>
- >> >THE SYMPTOMS: At certain www sites I cannot download more
- >> >than ~20K of any *.aiff, *.wav or *mov files.
- >>
- >> >ALSO: I recently attempted to download Netscape (2.05b) from
- >> >four different locations. Each time the download froze at exactly
- >> >2962K (80%).
- >>
- >> >1. On other sites I have no problem, and on at least one site
- >> >I have tried two of the same type of *.wav files - one choked at
- >> >20K, one d/l'ed properly. I do not have trouble with ftp, only
- >> >transfers via the WWW.
- >>
- >> >2. This only happens on my two systems that use Win95's Dial-Up
- >> >Networking to access a PPP connection. On a third, running
- >> >Win 3.1 with Spry's 16-bit dialer and 16-bit Netscape, I don't
- >> >have this problem.
- >>
- >> >One of the Win95 systems and the Win3.1 system are accessing
- >> >the same PPP connection. Another Win95 system is accessing PPP
- >> >from the same provider, different account. The former systems
- >> >accesses via a dynamic IP address, the latter, static.
- >>
- >> >The problem only occurs on the Win95 systems.
- >>
- >> >Therefore the fault is with Win95, my configuration of same or
- >> >the way certain sites communicate with it.
- >>
- >> >3. This occurs in NCSA Mosaic 16-bit on one of the Win95 systems,
- >> >so it is not a Netscape-specific prob.
- >>
- >> >4. In every other respect my set ups are working perfectly, they
- >> >are all fast and solid. The two Win95 systems use the same type
- >> >of USR 28800 V.34 modem. It should be noted that one of the two
- >> >Win95 systems did not exhibit this problem when it was running
- >> >WFW3.11 using the same modem (the other system has been running
- >> >Win95 from the beginning).
- >>
- >>
- >> >There is just one other thing that the two malfunctioning
- >> >Win95 systems have in common. They both have Spry's Internet
- >> >in a Box installed, although it is rarely used (it may have
- >> >set some environmental variable as part of the installation,
- >> >however).
- >>
- >> > ********************
- >>
- >> >Here is a site to test on:
- >>
- >> >Attempt to retrieve *.mov files from
- >>
- >> >http://www.helloindia.com/india/randr/whosro.shtml
- >>
- >> >Or try getting *aiff files from
- >>
- >> >http://www.helloindia.com/india/music/mansur.shtml
- >>
- >> >I have never been able to get past 20k or so in any attempt to
- >> >download from this site.
- >>
- >> >If anyone can offer a solution to this mystery, I will gladly
- >> >send along US$30, in any form preferred.
- >>
- >> > Sincerely, David G. Imber
- >> hey man i had the same problem i can offer 2 suggestions. first call
- >> your phone company and ask them to come check your phone line and see
- >> if there is to much noise in it. second is your internet setup set to
- >> diconect after a certian period of time u can check this by running
- >> internet setup wizar over. oh.... are you using the same modem on all
- >> computers or are they all the same brand and model? email me back at
- >> reggie@community.net if this email aint workin email me at
- >> emmit95@msn.com
- >> peace out
- >> reggie
- >>
- >
- > You are lucky you were able to download 80 percent of
- > netscape. I've been losing it somewhere between 2 and 20
- > percent. I have no idea why. I have a 90 mhz pentium wity 32
- > megs memory and almost a gig of free hard drive space. I use a
- > 14.4 us robotics sportster, but am considering moving up to a
- > 28.8. --Clover
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