On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:03:27AM -0500, Zach wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a problem in Debian (testing) and wonder if you could help me. > In > Windoze I can stat a download program and left unattended it will run > for 5 hours before the ISP automatically disconnects, however in Linux > when I am running 'apt-get upgrade' sometimes it will run for 5 hours > also before disconnecting but more often than not it will disconnect > after just 1 hour and also often just 90 minutes and sometimes rarely > just after a few minutes. I cannot find any explanation or error > message in /var/log. I am using SupraExpress 56 SP serial modem (also > I wonder why the max download transfer rate I get is around 30KB > whereas in Windoze I can get 50KB in Windoze). Here is all I could > find in the logfiles: > > netrek:~# pon isp.com > (I setup my dialup connection using pppconfig.)
I don't suppose you told pppconfig to make it an on-demand connection? Personally, I also use the persist option so that it redials if the connection dies. I'm out in the country miles from the phone switch, so I routinly get an average of 3 KB/s. How do you get 30-50 KB/s? At 28.8 K bps with n81 that's 9 bits per byte so that's 3.2 K bytes/s. At 56 Kbps at n81 that's 6.2 K bytes/s. I wonder what units linux's 30 KB and Windoze 50 KB are referring to. Could it be something like the difference between K=1000 and K=1024? I don't know anything about SupraExpress. I only use USR/3Com Courier VEverything. Curious. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
