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- From: dje@emi.net
- Subject: Re: connection lost/hangup
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- References: <4eoh4q$ek5@altrade.nijmegen.inter.nl.net> <1996Feb4.155938.29936@news.unige.ch>
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 03:26:53 GMT
-
- thanos@cui.unige.ch (Thanos Dimitris) wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- I had the same problem with my Zoltix 288i. My ISP told me to add \n1
- to my init string to turn off modem retrain. This improved things a
- lot but didn't completly fix everything.
-
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