Re: Modem speed
Christian:
The Cisco AS5200 does contain a bank of modems-- if your Windows
machine is getting 42000bps, then they're likely 56K modems. Are the
Windows and Linux machines calling on the same phone line? They're
calling the same phone number, right?
To verify that Linux isn't mis-reporting the speed, use minicom to talk
to the modem. Send it whatever init string is specified in
/etc/chatscripts/<your provider>, then dial the phone number:
"atdt<phone #>". When you connect, does your modem report
"CONNECT 360000"? If it does this repeatedly, then you can be
fairly confident that this it really is always connecting at this speed.
If you suspect that it should be able to connect at a higher speed,
start looking through the AT command reference for the modem, to
make sure that you haven't inadvertently told it not to try to connect
at a higher speed. I believe that most modems accept "at&f" as a
command to return everything to the factory default.
Let us know what you find.
Marc
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Marc Mongeon <mongeon@bankoe.com>
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"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
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>>> Christian Dysthe <cdysthe@oddbird.dyndns.org> 09/29/99 05:37PM
I do not think ISP two has modems at all. You dial directly in to the
Cisco unit or something. At least that is what they told me. ISP one
has 56k modems.
We have a Windows machine here dialing into the same ISP (the slow one),
and that machine gets at least a 42000 connection.
Below you can see ping stats from ISP two:
--- ping statistics ---
26 packets transmitted, 26 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 89.4/107.6/174.8 ms
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Regards,
Christian Dysthe
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