---Reply to mail from Harald Sundt about [SuSE Linux] Setting Dial-Up Connection-Speed
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> [SuSE Linux] Setting Dial-Up Connection-Speed Bump
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> Setting the connection speed to 56000 in kppp may not be enough to let all
> the parties involved to connect at 56k.
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> I suspect I must enter 56k in other configuration files. Is this true? If
> so which are they?
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> I also suspect I have a glitch in my connection set up, in that I often
> have to call five times to acieve a connect...only to have pppd die. Yet
> eventually I get a good connection....which always seems to be 2800!
>
> Somewhere I got wind of some notion that Linux is "trying" to make the
> connection too many times in too little time, and so it fails. The
> correction would be to ask Linux to try less frenetically, and thus achieve
> a grip!
>
> I must say, that using the same line my Mac and Virtual PC Windows systems
> are able to make internet dial-up connect the the first time, every time,
> and at speeds between 46666 and 48000 bps consistantly.
>
> Thank you
>
> I am running S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 on a Gateway 2500 "SOLO" laptop with a
> pcmcia modem, (NOT a Winmodem).
>
> Hal
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Hi Hal-
I use kppp often when I first install linux so I can jump on the net and
get xisp or wvdial downloaded and built. I am using a Diamond Supra 56i
internal modem flashed to v90. Here is what I have seen. If I set the
connection to 57.6, I often only get 9600. I open the log window and
observe the connect speed. Sometimes I have my ISP tech support telnet to
the ascend routers and get my connect speed. If I set kppp to 115.2 or
whatever, I connect quite a bit faster and if I find a dialing string that
works I get even better. For me, the ole standby AT&F1M0 to quiet my
noisy supra works quite well. I have the best luck with xisp since it
seems more robust than kppp to me. The easiest setup for me was with
wvdial. Have you tried dialing strings? I know that kppp defaults to
ATZ. I would try setting the port speed to 115.2 and see if that helps.
As far as the ppp dying, this happens enough with kppp to get me to xisp
on a regular basis. The most solid connects I get are with xisp that I
rolled myself.
Michael E. Perry
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