Re: dialup connectivity problem
On 1/25/07, Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> wrote:
I had the problem of only 2KB/s on Debian and 4 on Windows. I fiddled
around with it and discovered that when I ran "wvdial" it would do the
full 4 (you get 30-50 with dialup?! This was in the country though, a
Hi Owen,
Oops I meant Kb/s :-) Big difference in the capitalization heh.
ways from town...). You might try using wvdial, and also enabling all
the compression parameters in the ppp conf file. Somehow there is a
way to find out exactly what wvdial is using for parameters when it
gives control of the connection to pppd; that is what I had to use.
wvdial does the connecting, pppd takes care of the rest, when wvdial
is used. Sorry I can't give more specifics, the computer is someone
else's and my memory of the incident is incomplete.
Ok so I just run wvdial with no parameters? I used ppconfig to setup
the ppp connection. I just type "pon ispc.com" to connect and "poff
isp.com" to disconnect. Can you send me your wvdial.conf and ppp
config file?
40C is quite fine, my drives idle at nearly that (spinning but idle).
Sometimes they get up to almost 70C when they are really busy. Maybe
that's too hot? Comments...
Cool.
-- I don't have decent access to the Internet now, so replies come rarely.
Ok.
Zach
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