---Reply to mail from Harald Sundt about [SuSE Linux] Setting Dial-Up Connection-Speed Bump

[SuSE Linux] Setting Dial-Up Connection-Speed Bump

Setting the connection speed to 56000 in kppp may not be enough to let all the parties involved to connect at 56k.

I suspect I must enter 56k in other configuration files. Is this true? If so which are they?

I also suspect I have a glitch in my connection set up, in that I often have to call five times to acieve a connect...only to have pppd die. Yet eventually I get a good connection....which always seems to be 2800!

Somewhere I got wind of some notion that Linux is "trying" to make the connection too many times in too little time, and so it fails. The correction would be to ask Linux to try less frenetically, and thus achieve a grip!

I must say, that using the same line my Mac and Virtual PC Windows systems are able to make internet dial-up connect the the first time, every time, and at speeds between 46666 and 48000 bps consistantly.

Thank you

I am running S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 on a Gateway 2500 "SOLO" laptop with a pcmcia modem, (NOT a Winmodem).

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---End reply Hi Hal- I use kppp often when I first install linux so I can jump on the net and get xisp or wvdial downloaded and built. I am using a Diamond Supra 56i internal modem flashed to v90. Here is what I have seen. If I set the connection to 57.6, I often only get 9600. I open the log window and observe the connect speed. Sometimes I have my ISP tech support telnet to the ascend routers and get my connect speed. If I set kppp to 115.2 or whatever, I connect quite a bit faster and if I find a dialing string that works I get even better. For me, the ole standby AT&F1M0 to quiet my noisy supra works quite well. I have the best luck with xisp since it seems more robust than kppp to me. The easiest setup for me was with wvdial. Have you tried dialing strings? I know that kppp defaults to ATZ. I would try setting the port speed to 115.2 and see if that helps. As far as the ppp dying, this happens enough with kppp to get me to xisp on a regular basis. The most solid connects I get are with xisp that I rolled myself. Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>