[H-GEN] Linux Problems

[Grant, Luke]

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I agree with this on every level.

When i was admining for ISP's I found that the WebExcel modem was
by far the worst modem on the market. We had many more problems with
them than any other modem we used in our racks. Stay away from a little
used brand called "Opal-Modems" as they use the webexcel chipset.

in the cheaper range of modems i have found th Banksia range to be pretty
good and if you are willing to spend a reasonable amount of money you can't
go
past the 'US-Robotic COURIER' range of modems.


If you realy can not afford to replace your modem you can always try adding
some
init strings to the dialup sequence. You will probably find that you are
using
"atz" or "at&f" if you have not changed any defaults. These are fairly basic
but will not help to rectify line problems. You should try something like
"at&f&c1&d2&k3" which seems to help many modems though if i remember
correctly the "k3"
conflicts in the webexcel....you might want to drop it.  You can also try
placeing a 
cap on the connection speed for the handshake with a string like....
"at&f+M=1,11,28000,31200"
which would limit the speed to between 28k and 31.2k.   <-- Not entirely
sure if the +M should be +
Mn where n is a number....its been a while



Luke

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Luke Grant
Systems Administrator
Seven Queensland.
Maroochydore
140-142 Horton Pde.
wk#  +61754301737
mob# +61407317951
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra Milne [mailto:silne at bit.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:21 AM
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Linux Problems
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> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> > For example I dial in and try to connect to uq but the 
> connection is not
> > established and a message in my ppp log file indicates that 
> the request
> > by the modem for configuration was never returned. In 
> addition, I drop a
> > lot of connections after 30 mins, 1 hour or some such. I 
> noticed a lot
> > of these problem when I went to a Web-Excel 56 Kb modem 
> which behaves
> > impecably under Windows 9X. If I use Linux for a month my 
> phone bill is
> > $10 more than if I use Windows for a month.
> 
> i had this problem, but in my case it misbehaved just as badly under
> windows. i took my modem back after a week and got it changed 
> for an acer
> surf modem. it works FINE and it's only $10 more than the webexcel.
> 
> > Further, I am getting absolutely woeful performance using 
> Netscape in
> > Linux over Netscape in Win. The settings for both are the same.
> 
> Well i can't help with this as the windows machine does NOT 
> run netscape
> under any circumstances. i do not like netscape.... my 
> brother (who is the
> predominant user of the machine) is free to install opera or 
> lynx if he
> suddenly decides he doesn't like Internet Extorter.
> 
> > I am using Red Hat 6.2 ... is anyone else observing the 
> same behaviour.
> > It is getting to the stage that ...when on the Internet, I 
> use Windows
> > for stability ... and you can imagine how difficult that is to
> > contemplate.
> 
> i suggest getting a replacement modem.
> 
> Sandra.
> 
> 
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