You can probably tell, I am intensely jealous of you all, your technical
expertise and success with Arachne.
Roger,
I also tried 8N1 setting with Compuserve, and couldn't even connect. I have
always used 7E1 with Compuserve successfully. (Actually, I should try the
7E1 setting with Freewwweb). It appears that most success is on 586-class
machines with lots more RAM. Anybody got 386 and 486 machines with 1 to 8
megs of RAM working satisfactory with Arachne (any version)?
Bart,
Thanks for the generous post. That's quite a feat of batch gymnastics. As
you said, it probably won't help my situation, since I can connect and start
up Arachne. I have never had trouble connecting to Compuserve with a
terminal emulator (ie. Procomm). And I do get a successful login using
Arachne's dialer, both Compuserve and Freewwweb. I don't think phone lines
are the problem. Remember, the "Arachne load error" is the skull 'n
crossbones screen I get AFTER successfully logging on, SOMETIMES
successfully loading the start page. It stalls mid-load or I try going to a
2nd URL and I get the message "Cannot locate computer . . .", then the
"Arachne load error" screen.
I do think it's time I try to uncompress the drive and re-install Arachne.
However, the 386 machine's drive is NOT compressed, and I have the same
troubles on that.
Sergei,
My Compuserve email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my Freewwweb
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, I am not sure what you mean by
'hostname'. Compuserve email servers are pop.compuserve.com and
smtp.compuserve.com; Freewwweb's is pop3.freewwweb.com and
smtp.compuserve.com
You said before that I would need an NT or Unix machine to determine IP
number address of the start pages. Sorry, I don't have that kind of friend.
Is there a Windows 95 utility or maybe a website that would help me here? I
poked around on MS IE for a status indicator showing a site's IP number, but
nothing. I will try to get Freewwweb techs to disclose their proxy server
address, IF they are indeed using a proxy.
Steve
--Original Messages--
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:17:52 -0500
From: Roger Turk
Steve Evans,
Sorry for this belated reply to your post of 15 Feb, but I was under the
weather and am behind in reading listservice posts.
You wrote:
>>As I mentioned, other users of the Freewwweb and Compuserve ISPs in my
local
area are connecting and surfing via Arachne quite successfully with only the
Primary and Secondary DNS, no proxy server address.<<
I use Arachne thru Compuserve and do not have any problems. One peculiarity
with Compuserve is that you have to communicate with 7 data bits, Even
parity, 1 stop bit (7E1), otherwise, you can't connect. (I tried once with
8N1 and nothing happened, returned to 7E1 and Arachne worked fine.)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:27:17 +0300
From: "Sergei Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Steve,
What does it mean "in my local area"? Do another user use the same
provider phone as you? Did you try to use IP address as URL?
Give me your e-mail addresses in Compuserve and Freewwweb nets and also
their hostnames. I'll try to learn something about the situation from my
end of the Internet.
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:13:48
From: Van Voordturen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Since I'm behind answering, you get two replies...)
I had the impression that core.exe just wouldn't load after loading epppd.
I was wrong there.
In fact I'm more or less clueless.
Drive compression may be a problem, since disk space may be incorrectly
calculated, especially if you keep compressed files (archives) on a
compressed volume. That would, however, definitely affect any other attempt
to write to this volume.
There might be a problem with the phone line, but that would usually depend
on the time of day.
What if you exit arachne and try to log in with telnet.exe manually?
Bart
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:44:43 -0500
From: Roger Turk
OS on the 586/133 is MS-DOS 5.0; on the P75 it is MS-DOS 6.22.
I agree with you, that if the computer connects, the modem and port settings
must be good. See my immediate previous post to Steve Evans regarding
Compuserve requiring 7E1 and not working with 8N1.
