Re: MODEM LATENCY SOLVED
I appreciate the help that I got on this, my modem is
just singing right along... changet it to 56700.
Thanks
--- Matthew Sackman <matthew@sackman.co.uk> wrote:
> I think you may be suffering from what I've come
> across
> lately: the modem gets stuffed up if the serial port
> baud
> rate is too high. Try setting the port speed (use
> pppconfig)
> down to 56700 instead of 115200, and I think you may
> find
> things start to work better for you. (worked
> here...)
>
> As for configuring your sources file, use apt-setup
> to
> set things up as you need.
>
> Matthew
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:26:31PM -0800, D. Hoyem
> wrote:
> > I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ...
> How
> > do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This
> is
> > part of the address in the sources file
> > htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/
> binaryi386...
> > that is not the complete address, but how do I
> specify
> > the mirror that I want to use?
> > Don
> > --- Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
> > > apt-get install hdparm
> > >
> > > but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem
> on
> > > the hard drives. i'm
> > > guessing your connection to the mirror you have
> > > selected in your
> > > sources.list is just poor. try another mirror
> > > closer to you.
> > >
> > > just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've
> ever
> > > seen was .89 megs a
> > > second. which is still more than enough to not
> time
> > > out waiting for data
> > > for a dsl line, much less a modem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Forrest English
> > > http://truffula.net
> > >
> > > "When we have nothing left to give
> > > There will be no reason for us to live
> > > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > > You will have nothing left to use"
> > > -Fugazi
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ;
> > > apt-get
> > > > install communicator to get Netscape
> downloaded
> > > from
> > > > the Debian non-free site that is in the
> sources. I
> > > can
> > > > connect and download but then I get timed
> out... I
> > > was
> > > > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might
> be a
> > > > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed
> and
> > > > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying
> to
> > > use
> > > > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2
> hard
> > > drives
> > > > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/)
> 5.6G. I
> > > have
> > > > tried as root and the response is, command not
> > > found.
> > > > What am I doing wrong, and will this help
> resolve
> > > the
> > > > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin
> or
> > > > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the
> > > best
> > > > settings when do I need to place them so they
> will
> > > be
> > > > picked up on start up?
> > > > TIA
> > > > Don
> > > >
> > > >
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