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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: news.unige.ch!usenet
- From: thanos@cui.unige.ch (Thanos Dimitris)
- Subject: Re: connection lost/hangup
- Message-ID: <1996Feb4.155938.29936@news.unige.ch>
- Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch
- Reply-To: thanos@cui.unige.ch
- Organization: University of Geneva - CUI
- References: <4eoh4q$ek5@altrade.nijmegen.inter.nl.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 15:59:38 GMT
-
- In article ek5@altrade.nijmegen.inter.nl.net, Eric.van.Oirschot@inter.nl.net (Eric van Oirschot) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > there is a problem with my new modem. After surfing the net for about a few minutes, my machine has
- > no working connection with the internet provider and my xfers freeze. After freezing and about 30
- > seconds of waiting (read: hoping the connection will be continued), the modem hangs up.
- >
- > My 'old' modem (a 14K4 Tornado internal) works perfectly, but my new modem (a 28K8 Dynalink
- > external) is troubling me. There were no software/hardware changes. After reinstalling the old one
- > I could work as if there was nothing wrong.
- >
- > Both modems were used at both my PC's, the 14K4 is working fine, the 28K8 stops...
- > Even my mail agent (Eudora) was in trouble after using the 28K8. (Lost password on server, due to
- > communication errors.)
- >
- > I use the default (factory) settings for both modems, with RTS-CTS flow control.
- > Changing the logical speed from 115200 to 38400 or even lower in Trumpet winsock doesn't solve the
- > problem. It seems to take a little bit longer then to have the lost connection/hangup.
- >
- > Both PC's have the 16550 chip in their I/O cards.
- > Machine A is a PC586-120/PCI and machine B is a PC486DX2-66/VLB.
- > On machine A I use MS-DOS/Windows with trumpet Winsock 2.0 and it worked fine.
- > On machine B I use Linux 1.2.13 and this O.S. is working better ;-)
- >
- > What can be wrong or what I should do/test to solve this problem?
- >
- > Thanx anyway,
- >
- > Eric.van.Oirschot@inter.nl.net
- > etm.etmeroi@memo.ericsson.se
- >
- > Eric van Oirschot
- > Wilhelminastraat 48
- > 5121 WT Rijen
- > The Netherlands
- > E-Mail:
- > Eric.van.Oirschot@inter.nl.net
- > etmeroi@etm.ericsson.se
- >
- >
-
-
- I'm having exactly the same problem whith a 14.4 modem.
- It only does that when using a WWW browser and sending (not receiving) mails
- with exchange!
- Tell me if you get any information.
- Thanks in advance,
- Dimitris.
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