Re: Connecting at 28.8 Kbps

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:29:23 -0600

Unless your PM is spewing its eyeballs out with RF or AF electronic
noise, the modem's connect speed should have nothing to do with the
PM. I have heard some 28.8kish modems do not like to run at 57600,
but prefer 115200, and init string is REALLY important... but I am
sure you already knew that.

I'd start testing line quality, you may have some dirty trunks/pots
coming to your location (we had a sudden loss of quality a few days
ago from a 22 bullet nailing the underground trunk.... Thankfully
GTE decided to fix it rather than wait another 6 months when they
upgrade the cable coming out this way)..

Also, I hear the MT racks like to get a bit WARM... Warm modems =
crappy connections (at least for my cardinals, and the USR modems I
have messed with)..

JS

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> From: Marwan W. Helou <mhelou@inco.com.lb>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Connecting at 28.8 Kbps
> Date: Wednesday, November 13, 1996 5:00 AM
> 
> I have two port masters PM-2e connected to a MultiTech MT2834MR
rack of
> modems and managed by radius on a solaris machine. Lately, some of
my
> users have problems connecting at a 28.8 rate. One port master have
1MB
> of RAM and the other have 4MB of RAM. Does anyone have a suggestion
?.
> 
> Thanks 
> Marwan