The National Enquirer reports at 4:58 PM -0700 10/4/04, Clark Martin wrote:
>At 9:31 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote: > >The National Enquirer reports at 7:05 PM +0200 10/3/04, Mikael >Bystr�m wrote: > > > >>Bob said: > >> > >> >What are you using for PPP? ARA? FreePPP? > > > > >PPP. > >Does to me, sort of. OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 have a PPP control panel. OS >8.6 and 9.1 use Remote Access control panels. Mikael said his mom was using OS 9.2.2, that's why I asked about the two options that I thought they might be using. >PPP is the underlying protocol and ARA is similar. PPP, Remote >Access, FreePPP and MacPPP are software for accessing PPP (and ARA in >the case of Remote Access). Which is why plain old PPP didn't actually make sense. I wondered what they were using to "control" PPP (to the best of my knowledge "PPP" and "MacPPP" are not options for OS 9). The only reason I asked, was to see how to check the flow control and port speed settings,which could be responsible for the dropped connections if the problem was between the modem and the keyboard. I've only used MacTCP (pre-Open Transport) and FreePPP (post-Open Transport). I've looked at ARA once and don't ever remember checking out MacPPP. So my familiarity with them is severely limited. > >>Yes, the line is equally noisy in every stage. > > > >Sounds like that is you primary problem. A call to the phone company > >sounds in order. It may be something as simple as a bad ground > >connection at your house phone box. But they should be able to find > >it and fix it. > > >Before you call, take a phone out to the service entrance. If the >service entrance is relatively new there should be a modular jack >(assuming this is US, I don't know about the rest of the world). A >cable is plugged into this jack. The jack is the incoming connection >and the cable goes to your household wiring. Unplug the cable and >plug in your phone. Check the connection now. If it's still bad >then call your phone company. This is precisely the purpose of this >connector. Good advice for US users. I did just that a few months ago on a phone line. But it's my understanding that Mikael lives overseas somewhere. I didn't think the setup would necessarily be the same. Plus my recollection is that he said that the phone line had a "strong ground loop buzz outside the house." He didn't say how he knew that, but it indicated to me that the noise problem probably wasn't from the line(s) inside the house. Just my thought process. >If your connection is bad at this jack then it's the >phone company's problem. If it's okay here but noisy/bad in the >house then it's your wiring that's the problem. Mind you I've had a >phone company employee try to blow me off on this. They kept saying >if they didn't find any problem I would get billed even though I had >told them several times I had done this test, THEIR test. Got to love good old American enterprise. I they can't milk it for $$, it's generally not worth the effort. :-/ Bob -- If replying privately, please include my name in the To: address, so that my filters won't send your reply to the trash. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
