2009/9/7 Maurice Butler <[email protected]>: > Hi Wesley, > Have you tried forcing your modem to a fixed speed like 33k so it is not > always trying to auonegiate a faster speed and forgetting to actually > transfer data? > I tend to do this for my rural friends who are still on dialup - not the > sort thing you would expect in the city > Maurice > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 8:48 a.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: measurement software for electrical networks? >> >> >> 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. >> >> I'm starting to think I deserve broadband purely on the >> demerits of Telecom's >> performance, as compensation for Telecom's lack thereof. >> >> At any rate, having to open ten tabs of slashdot to guarantee >> getting even >> one, is a bit much. >> >> And if I have to use a 526k DSL thingee to solve the problems >> with a dial-up >> connection - at a measly 5k6 (if I'm lucky) - perhaps the >> problem isn't with >> me. >> >> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: >> > I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could >> use to get hard >> > copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet >> connection via >> > Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. >> > >> > They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute >> to a quarter of >> > an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide >> to start a >> > class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the >> general public, and >> > having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. >> > >> > Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - >> when Telecom's >> > lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of >> punishing people for >> > preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art >> of punishing them >> > for using Telecom.
To get 56k audio modems to go properly, particularly with Linux, is still something to a black art. Wes: Please can you tell us exactly what your set up is? Please download the latest version of the scanModem utility, unpack it, and run it. http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz IMHO This is the ultimate tool for getting dial-up modems to work properly. If the report it generates does not immediately produce an obvious answer to you what's happening you might care to post the output from scanModem. The other thing that would be well worth a try is to take your computer and modem to a known-to-work telephone line to see what happens on a known good line. If it can be definitively proven that the line is at fault a suggestion is to move away from Telecom and get your new ISP to boot Telecom to get your line fixed. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
