Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and make sure your baud rate is set to 115200
or 57600. You might also want to add the lines:
bsdcomp 15,15
deflate 15,15
vj-max-slots 16
To juice up compression.
Hope this helps.
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:38:27PM -0200, rafael@sitemax.com.br wrote:
> hy there,
> I've just installed debian slink and I'd like to upgrade it
> to potato, but my internet connection is very slow. I have a usr
> sportster 28800, and on my redhat 6.0 (on the same machine...) I can
> do downloads from ftp.debian.org at least at 3.0 K/s, and on slink,
> only 956 B/s, if I am lucky... this way I'll never get potato at al...
> :)
> Using pppstats (pppstats -w 1) on redhat, the average is about 3500 or
> 3600
> Bytes/second, but on debian it never passes 900 Bytes/second.
> I use wvdial to connect because with any other method (minicom, pon,
> ppp-on script or kppp) I can't, the like falls up and the following msg
> is posted on var/log/messages:
> peer refused to authenticate
> the problem is that my provider uses pap authetication, and kppp is
> configured for pap (I even tried chap ant terminal based, but didn't
> work too)
> and it stills the same way...
>
> could somebody help? it's been some time I want to get potato and I
> can't ;)
> I'm now donwloading form redhat the whole potato distrib., I mean,
> I'm mirroring it (directories binary-all and binary-i386) and I'm almost
> finishing it. When I finish I'll try connecting with potato, but I think
> this
> has nothing to do... it must be some configuration problem!
>
> thanks anyway,
> bye
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