Just a note to ppl having dial in prob's especally in Sydney
1) Due to the rain we have been experiencing lately line quality is at a all
time low. If you are experiencing problems with your modem try the good old
ats10=200 which seems to help alot of people. It basically ups the DCD time
out from 19ms (default) to 200ms which gives the modem a bit more of a
chance to re-negotiate the connection.
2) If your ISP is Sydney CBD based they may be having problems du to Telstra
loosing one of their exchanges last monday. This has been causing problems
such as Busy Signals and also line drop outs due to the other exchanges
having to bear the extra load.
Just some tips :-)
Regards
Edward Murphy
Ihug Internet Helpdesk
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----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 8:10 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Modem problem with Bigpond Direct
> Last Thursday a strange thing happened. My server which has been
> running happily for about 2 years decided that it could not talk to
> bigpond direct anymore, through its 56k dialup modem.
>
> The symptom was that it would sometimes connect but after a few seconds
> or minutes the ppp would die, although the moden still had the CD light
> on, and hence the server (RH5) did not notice anything wrong.
>
> I changed the computer and modem (same type) and phone line - same
> results. Telstra were puzzled, and gave me a new dial-in number and
> router port. Still the same.
>
> The only way I have been able to make it work is to plug in an old 33k
> modem, which has been working fine for a couple of days.
>
> Telstra's techs monitored the router when I was connected but unable to
> communicate and they said the retry counter was running wild. Which
> suggests a line problem or modem problem. But why would a new modem and
> a different phone line behave the same??
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Peter
>
>
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