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- From: Joel Herman <herma@internexus.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR 33.6 Halt Problem
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:13:23 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Nexus
- Message-ID: <4f5ve3$22p@micro.internexus.net>
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- dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- >Eric Shaw (eric@accessorl.net) wrote:
- >: In article <310EEAE7.77A3@cris.com>, Bob Riffelmacher <rjr@cris.com> wrote:
- >:
- >: >John Papay wrote:
- >: >>
- >: >> My internet provider has announced that they are giving up on
- >: >> the Sportster modems with the 33.6 feature because they will halt
- >: >> during data transfer and then resume at some point, perhaps 30 seconds
- >: >> later. I have experienced this apparent problem with mine, but I am
- >: >> not sure if it is modem related or just the slowness of the server/
- >: >> internet path. Has anyone experienced these "halts" on their 33.6?
- >: >> It does not happen with the older 28.8 Sportsters.
- >:
- >: Yes, I have seen these halts, and they are as extreme with Couriers as
- >: they are with Sportsters. And they *are* worse with the 33.6 firmware, a
- >: lot worse (used to be less than a second, now its sometimes 30-45), even
- >: when directly connected to each other, so it can't be the lines or the
- >: "other modem". Fortunately, they are only this bad if you are using v.34
- >: or v.34+. If you turn off v.8 so it uses v.FC instead, the max connect
- >: rate will be 28.8, but for the most part it gets rid of the pauses.
- >: Depending on how new your USR is, this is generally done with either
- >: S54.7=1 or S32.1=0.
- >
- >Give me a break! Please explain the total *lack* of these "halts" with my
- >*two* USR Couriers connecting to my ISP.
- >
- >Please explain the regular occurrance of these "halts" with a different
- >ISP and my friend's Supra. Please explain that his Supra did not
- >experience these "halts" when we used it to call my ISP.
- >
- >Quit bashing USR over something that has nothing to do with them.
- >
-
- I don't want to fan the flames here but ever since my ISP added a bunch
- of 33.6 Sportsters I too have been experiencing these "halts". I thought
- I was going crazy until I saw the above posts. The pauses tend to last
- about 5 seconds and I get them every minute or two. I am emailing them
- to see if anyone else is reporting this.
-
- J Herman
-
-