On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Dima Nemchenko wrote:
|i keep getting a similar problem with UK's BT SurfTime. it is almost as
|if about 1/3 of their servers are "broken" in some way. the effect is
|very visible when i try to connect after 6pm, when access becomes
|unmetered.
|
|before 6pm about 1/3 of the connection attempts fail. between 6pm and
|6:30pm, roughly 1/2 fail. then, between 6:30pm and about 8pm, almost all
|attempts fail.
Does chat have an ABORT BUSY in it's script?
|this looks like, out of a pool of 2/3 working and 1/3 "broken" servers,
|the working ones slowly fill up with users, leaving only the broken ones
|available during peak time. once the "peak" for "surfing" is past (9pm
|to midnight), connection improves to 60% success again. this phenomenon
|also seems to affect the service during weekends.
|
|does anybody have any ideas?
Make sure the chat script ends with CONNECT '\d\c' and add the pppd option
asyncmap a0000. For a better idea of why the modem-to-ISP-DTE connection
fails add the chat -v option and look at the syslogd log messages.
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