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- From: jbuhler@rice.edu (Jeremy Daniel Buhler)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Courier 33.6 Question
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 02:01:39 GMT
- Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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- Quoth Bob Nixon (bigrex@primenet.com):
- [how to tell your connection speed]
- > With ppp or slipp(TCPIP connection) about the only way is to use your
- > home directory of your account and ftp a non-compressable(zipped) file
-
- Not so! I use Trumpet for my SLIP/PPP connection, and it's no trouble
- at all to disable the transport layer long enough to issue a +++,
- followed by ati6 or ati11, followed by ato. Simply use the "manual
- login" option after you're already connected, do what you want, and
- then hit escape to re-enable SLIP or PPP.
-
- I don't know if this trick works for Win95's dialler or Mac/TCP, but
- there's no problem with it in principle - PPP in particular is designed
- to deal with the transport layer going up and down during a connection.
-
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- ## Jeremy Buhler * keeper of charismatic megafauna * Rice University ##
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