Re: Dropped connections on downloads

Jon Lusky (lusky2@earth.voyageronline.net)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 23:19:50 -0500 (EST)

bem@cmc.net writes:
> Ah, it seems you have the cause and effect backwards: the PPP connection
> is dropped, and then the client complains that it can't see the socket
> any more.
>
> For '95 there is a (typically Microsoftish) bassackwards configuration
> you may need to do. On the connection, there is buried somewhere some
> sliders for 'FIFO Buffers'. Read the help on them... if you make them
> SMALLER, the connection is more stable.
>
> It seems to fix a lot of problems seen when moving large amounts of
> data. It's weird and backwards, But so is Microsoft.

I see this behaviour consistantly with internal USR Sportsters.
Crank the FIFO sliders all the way to the left and suddenly the dropped
connections are gone.

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