The National Enquirer reports at 12:11 AM +0200 10/3/04, Mikael Byström wrote:
>I'm at my mothers in the country and have problems with disconnects and >bad or no communication with the ISP server at the other end. The modem >is a Global Village Teleport 56 standalone modem connected to the modem >port of a Beige G3. >I have no problems connecting with my internal modem in my Powerbook G4/ >400 (a MiniSpring V.90), using the exact same account and the same modem >to wall cord. What OS are you using????? OS X? Can you boot into OS 9? >The symptoms: >1. Connects fine and IP address is given, but it's not possible to go >anywhere and pings to nameservers and elsewhere I tried fail. After a few >minutes the modem is disconnected. If it dials out, connects, gets an IP address, the computer-t0-modem connection is working. >2. Using the Techtool 3.06 modem test, analog loopback and analog self- >test fails. The rest of the tests, like modem DTE, DTE Max, Register, >ROM-Selftest, Dial Tone, Hook Test, Digital Loop req, and speaker test >seem to go fine. At least TT doesn't notice and as far as I can judge >they do succeed. I remember something funky about the TTP modem test. I don't recall the specifics though. (Do you need a loop-back connector to run that test?) So, I wouldn't put a whole lot of confidence in that test at the moment. >I'm naturally suspecting the cable from Mac to modem (non removable), but >the modem is supposed to be working well on another machine, though that >was a while ago. As the old modem, now defunct, was hit by lightning, >chances are that also the computers serial ports was fried, but to me it >seems more likely to have fried completely in such a situation. I hate non-removable modem cables. >The analysis is further complicated by the fact that the phone line have >a a strong ground loop buzz from outside the house, which could affect >the connection unless one uses a bad phone line modem script. However, as >my internal PB G4 modem doesn't have problems I'm not sure why the GV >Teleport would. Can you connect a regular phone to that line and/or connector? If so, pick up the receiver and dial one numerical digit. Then listen and see if you hear that buzz, or any noise at all. That should tell you whether the line/connector is bad. >Could be of course the script or the modem in itself in >the PBG4 has better error correction. That's very possible. >Any suggestions what to try next? You feel that the test failures >indicate that finding a better modem script is futile? I was originally going to suggest using a terminal program (not OS X Terminal), like ZTerm1.0.1, and then send the modem an AT command (to get its attention). If the computer is communicating with the modem, you will get a response back in the terminal program. (It's been years since I have done this, I want to say it responds with "hello" but I'm not sure.) The reason for asking about OS 9 is that ZTerm still works in OS 9. You can still do that if you want to confirm the connection. But as I said above, it sounds like that part is working. >Unfortunately I don't have another working machine with serial ports, nor >a second working standalone modem. Try connecting the modem to the printer port. Make sure you tell the software that you are using a different port. See if it works there. I'll look and see if I can find something about GV modem scripts. Did you Google to try to find anything? Bob Bob -- If replying privately, please include my name in the To: address, so that my filters won't send your reply to the trash. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
