Hi Ralf,
This is not a direct answer, but a workaround (in case you're not
already aware of it): Download from an FTP site and not a web site
(URL starting with ftp:// instead of http://) and use a FTP client
that can resume broken downloads (Navigator is such a client). At
least you don't have to restart the download from the beginning when
your connexion breaks.
Also you should be able to get better than 1.8 - 2.5 KBs. If the file
to download is available from many sources, be sure to identify a
source which is fast for you. I recently identified a Sunsite etc
mirror very close ("netwise") to me and it changed my whole experience
of downloads.
Jacques
Ralf Christian Strandell a �crit (18.11.1998):
>
> Hi. Something automagically kills my httpd and my ppp internet
> connection at random (?) times.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> 1)
> I have made repeated attempts to download a certain 65 MB file.
> I get transfer speeds of 1.8 - 2.5 kbytes/sec and after a couple
> of hours the connection is broken. I can download only 15%.
>
> My 56000 ISA bus modem:
> AVAKS 5614XH (Cirrus chip I think)(this is not flex but x2)
>
> 2)
> When I used an AT command to drop the speed to 33600:
> AT +MS=11,1,300,33600
> then I could download much more - about 30% of the file. But then
> the connection was lost again.
>
>
> 3)
> The next advice was to upgrade the modem BIOS to V.90. Done.
> And paid. Now the connection is lost in 39 min and 19 min etc.
> My ftp session stayed alive for _two_ minutes. @�/"&#&"%!!
>
>
> Is this an ISP problem? Is this a phoneline problem?
> Is this a modem hardware problem? Is this a modem bios problem
> (incompatible?)? Is this a httpd -problem? Or what?
>
> PS. I get connected using a script as tools like usernet or network
> config didn't work at all.
>
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> E-Mail: Ralf Christian Strandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 18-Nov-98
> Time: 00:40:17
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