Re: Clocking Modem Speed
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Shao writes:
> > To get the speed you are connected at, you can add a line in your chat
> > script like this:
> > REPORT CONNECT
>
Sorry for weighing into this, but it might be important to note some
problems I had doing this.
" REPORT CONNECT " didn't work for me (full potato system). My last
line in the chatscript was " CONNECT '' ". To get this working I had to
change that line to " REPORT CONNECT CONNECT '' ".
> You also need to tell the modem to report the line speed. ATW1 will do it.
I have a very recent 56k ZOOM modem, internal ISA. It would not do
anything when changing the ATWn command. My modem accepted 1, 2, and 3
for this command, but it did not change the modem's behavior (its a good
modem, but it comes with nil documentation). I found out the modem's
default behavior (powerup settings) is the one I wanted (report line
speed, not modem-to-port speed), so all I do now is a reset (ATZ).
FWIW.
>
> > Then you should be able to see the speed you are connected at in
> > /var/log/messages.
The CONNECT speed line won't show up here. See below.
>
> Change "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" to
> "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider -r reportfile"
> and the CONNECT line will appear in reportfile.
On my sys this isn't necessary. If you don't specify a report-file to
write to (no '-r'), the CONNECT line will be sent to stderr, which ends
up being /var/log/ppp-connect-errors. So you can cat this file to see
the speed, with no need for another file in /var/log.
HTH
--
Ed C.
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