Thanks - it may have helped. I'll take a look at the logs much later today.
I dropped the speed from 115200 to 57600 and it's a little bit more reliable now, but only by a fraction, not at all by a magnitude. Thanks everybody for your help. Wesley Parish On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Ross Drummond wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: > > Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I have > > disproved a couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far > > at Telecom and Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the > > flat, and it's still falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka > > inside of him; and I've just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still > > falling over like aforementioned drunk. > > > > > Wesley Parish > > I see you have a Paradise email address. This means that your connections > will be through Telstra Clear's Lucent remote access server. > > Go to this archived message and apply the work around suggested there; > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz/msg50654.html > > If that fails to work append the line "debug" to your /etc/ppp/options > file. This will output a lot of stuff to your /var/log/messages file and > may give you a clue about what is going on. > > Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- George Kelischek - "To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer." ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
