Neil you are after modem scripts which tell the modem to limit connection speed. search the net & The wamug archives, there are scripts floasting around for this purpose: a script for each connection speed I have the scripts for my powerbook G3 (lombard), but I think you would need different scripts for your modem.
for the record, limiting the speed *seemed* to make a bit of difference, but I'm not convinced it *solved* the problem: Sometimes I can stay connected all day, but still sometimes I get dis-connected after a few minutes. However, I am running at 48K, so maybe the occasional disconnections would be eliminated if I used a slower speed. For me, the amount of times I get disconnected now is hardly worth the hassle of further experimentation good luck Greg > I posted on this subject back in February, recap: >> I have a problem that is erratic but seems to be increasing in frequency? >> When on the net or collecting email I keep getting disconnected. >> It's not a time-out thing as it often happens in the middle of an email >> download or during a net page download. >> I run OS 9.1 on a 400MHz Ti G4 Powerbook. Browser is IE 5.0. Mail app is >> Outlook Express 5.02. ISP is Telstra Bigpond - normal local-call dial-upto >> 0198308888. >> Typically I get the Apple message box saying that 'you have been >> disconnected' sometimes I get a network error message from Outlook Express >> (or occasionally I think from IE ). >> At other times everything runs fine for hours. > > Thanks for the many suggestions and comments, after trying many of these I > have been able to rule out most of the potential culprits - progress to > date: > I have had the same problem at three widely different locations: > - at home in Albany where maximum connection speed can 48000 but is > often less generally >33k but once yesterday was 9600 > - at a house in Claremont with a PC accessing net with no > disconnections (connection speed here can be higher than in Albany but also > varies) > - at a bush location where max connection speed was generally 14k > at each location drop-outs are very variable - sometimes get long trouble > free connections at other times there can be drop-outs every few minutes. > Because the problem spans different locations (and a PC at one location is > not having the problems) I am assuming that the problems are not down to the > Telstra lines > I have tried using different cables from the computer to the wall socket > (including the one from the trouble-free PC) to no effect, so I have ruled > out a faulty cable. > I do not have call waiting activated and I have disconnected all other > phones/faxes - but the disconnections still occur. > I have tried letting the applications (outlook &/or explorer) initiate > the connection and also used Remote Access to connect prior to firing up the > applications - there did not seem to be any difference with either approach. > Sometimes the problem occurs during connection - remote access reports > connection at (speed varies) gets to 'starting PPP' and then hangs, finally > giving the error message: 'The remote side is not responding correctly. > Check the configuration of your control panels and try again' > > The one suggestion that I haven't tried (because I don't know how) is to > limit the connection speed. I obviously don't fully understand this because > I thought the fact that remote access shows the computer connecting at > different speeds at different times meant that it could automatically detect > the appropriate speed to connect at. On re-reading some of the > comments/postings however I get the impression that once a connection speed > is automatically chosen, the computer tries to maintain this speed and ifit > can't then disconnections will happen - if so then it may be worth tryingto > limit the max connection speed to see if this is the case. > > My question is how do I do this - the modem control panel allows me to > select a modem [ I haven't changed this - currently apple internal 56k > (v90)] but not that I can see to change the connection rate. I found a > folder with modem scripts in it but double clicking a script gives a message > that they can't be opened. > > Also once I find a way to do this (and assuming it works) how do I pick a > speed that I can use at various places without slowing browsing to a crawl? > > Any feedback from someone who has encountered and beaten this problem would > be greatly appreciated. > > TIA > > Neil
