Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Most of the time your connect speed is due to the age of your phone system. I connect at 56K in ann arbor, but in flint/davison areas I only get 42666 at the most. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Yes, I do. I use it for my Laptop and as a back up to my internal Lucent. To use the modem, simply plug it into the external serial port, then point your dialer to that port. The win ports to lin ports are as follows: Win Linux - - com1ttyS0 com2ttyS1 com3ttyS2 com4ttyS3 etc. There is no software setups involved. Hi Arthur. Thanks for the reply. So...you -are- getting 56k connect speeds? I've got mine working (even though kudzu will not find it), but it always connects at 26.6 and tonight, 34667, which sounds odd to me. Oh well... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Yes, I do. I use it for my Laptop and as a back up to my internal Lucent. To use the modem, simply plug it into the external serial port, then point your dialer to that port. The win ports to lin ports are as follows: Win Linux - - com1ttyS0 com2ttyS1 com3ttyS2 com4ttyS3 etc. There is no software setups involved. Hi Arthur. Thanks for the reply. So...you -are- getting 56k connect speeds? I've got mine working (even though kudzu will not find it), but it always connects at 26.6 and tonight, 34667, which sounds odd to me. Oh well... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
On Saturday 01 September 2001 23:35, you wrote: snip Yep, I'm using kppp. I knew about the modem speeds, and that sometimes your modem reports computer-2-modem speeds, not modem-2-connection speeds as well. Like you said, its still fascinating! ;-) I'll check there, but I think its already 57.6, it was one of the first things I checked! ;-) Thanks much! One thing I forgot to mention - sometimes no matter what the modem is capable of the connection speed can be limited by line quality. If you have a noisy line, the packets have to be sent and resent to complete. You may want to check with your phone company and ask them to test the line for noise. Shielding damage and proximity to electrical or radio frequency generators in conjunction with poor shielding can cause noise on you line. The phone company SHOULD be willing to try to rectify noise problems. Just a thought.; HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Yes, I do. I use it for my Laptop and as a back up to my internal Lucent. To use the modem, simply plug it into the external serial port, then point your dialer to that port. The win ports to lin ports are as follows: Win Linux - - com1ttyS0 com2ttyS1 com3ttyS2 com4ttyS3 etc. There is no software setups involved. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Ever since I've installed the new Shuttle MB, I've had no ISA slots so I lost my 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem, which ran great. I've been limping along on a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external which works ok. I picked up an external 56k Creative ModemBlaster today. I switched the modems out and booted up. Kudzu reported that my serial modem had been removed (which I expected) but then did not find the ModemBlaster and install it. (which I did not expect). Anyone have a ModemBlaster working with 8.0, and if so, how? Thanks. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ModemBlaster help...
Ever since I've installed the new Shuttle MB, I've had no ISA slots so I lost my 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem, which ran great. I've been limping along on a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external which works ok. I picked up an external 56k Creative ModemBlaster today. I switched the modems out and booted up. Kudzu reported that my serial modem had been removed (which I expected) but then did not find the ModemBlaster and install it. (which I did not expect). Anyone have a ModemBlaster working with 8.0, and if so, how? Thanks. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...
On Saturday 01 September 2001 01:07, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: actually I don't think kudzu will find an external cause it won't need drivers or any thing like that. I would go to the KPPP setup and choose the ttyS0 or ttyS1 and put in you ISP server ip addresses etc and then see if it won't connect. . That's how I got my external running. You can test it before you are out of setup. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Hi Dennis, thanks for the reply. Well, it does find the external Practical Peripherals modem (albeit it calls it a generic serial modem) and will remove or add it as I hook it up. It won't find the Creative modem though. I did choose the option to keep the current generic serial modem setup, and I can connect. Its odd though. My old internal Diamond Supra 56k ISA modem showed connects of 57600. The external 28.8 Practical Peripherals showed connects of 26400. The external 56k Creative is showing 26400 as well... ;-( Are you using KPPP? If so go into the setup and check on modem where it sets the speed. You should be able to set it for 56k or 112k and then your connection speed should jump up. By the way, I don't know if you know it but the speed shown is 56,000 bits but what is actual transfer is more like 4.5 kbytes per second. This means that 8bits equal a byte and there is a start bit and a end bit on each byte so divide 56 by 10 and you get 5.6bytes, but FCC only allows up to 5.3 B/s transfer so that is the best you can expect. I never get it mostly I get around 4.5. Sorry if I am telling you what you already know, but it fascinates me how numbers get thrown around and they aren't what they appear. Let me know if you have any problem setting the modem speed. And anyone who sees my math above as messed up, please jump in here and put it straight. I hate it when I get stuff like that wrong. : ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
