We have one particular user using a USR Sportster 33.6 using Wingate
Proxy/Firewall software who connects on average between 30 and 50 times
a day.
that brings it down to (at best) under two years using your analogy.
I know, call me a raging pedant but I can't see the point in putting &w
in the init string, it achieves absolutely nothing (IMHO)
Cheers
Phil
> ----------
> From: Mury Johnson[SMTP:mury@main.goldengate.net]
> Sent: 18 August 1997 20:24
> To: Phil Taylor
> Cc: 'portmaster-users@livingston.com'
> Subject: RE: Win 95 DUN errors with PM2Er
>
>
> This has been gone through a zillion times, and I personally have a
> hard
> time believing a regular home user is going to initialize their modem
> 10,000-30,000 times. Even if they log in every day that's about 30-90
>
> years worth. I hope they have upgraded to something a little better
> by
> then.
>
> To each his own.
>
> Mury
>
> mury@goldengate.net 612-574-2200 Office
> GoldenGate Internet Services 612-574-2444 Fax
> 50% Swedish 50% Hungry ;)
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Phil Taylor wrote:
>
> > Sorry but I (personally) consider this slightly bad advice.
> >
> > Adding &w to extra settings in Win95 means that every time the user
> > connects, the current config is saved to the modems flash.
> >
> > As flash RAM only has a finite number of writes before it can fail
> you
> > are best to just put &f (or &f`1) in extra settings, this resets the
> > modem to (a) factory default but doesn't write anything to flash.
> >
> > As I said in my previous message, another way is force standard
> modem
> > :-)
> >
> > Just my 2p
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Mury Johnson[SMTP:mury@main.goldengate.net]
> > > Sent: 18 August 1997 17:03
> > > To: Gabriel Emerson
> > > Cc: 'portmaster-users@livingston.com';
> > > 'portmaster-radius@livingston.com'
> > > Subject: Re: Win 95 DUN errors with PM2Er
> > >
> > >
> > > Make sure you are running a recent version of ComOs and make sure
> you
> > > are
> > > using a good init string under extra settings in Win95. &f&w or
> &f1&w
> > > depending on the customers modem. This fixes 85% of our customer
> > > problems. If that doesn't work, check to see what protocols they
> have
> > > installed and get rid of anything they don't need.
> > >
> > > Mury
> > >
> > > mury@goldengate.net 612-574-2200 Office
> > > GoldenGate Internet Services 612-574-2444 Fax
> > > 50% Swedish 50% Hungry ;)
> > >
> > > On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Gabriel Emerson wrote:
> > >
> > > > We run 3 PM2Er's here. Our users are intermittently receiving
> > > "Dialup
> > > > Networking Could Not Negotiate..." errors. It is taking them 6
> or 7
> > > tries
> > > > to get in.
> > > > I am using Dale Reed's RADIUS for NT to authenticate our users,
> > > simple
> > > > 2-line user/password entries for the assigned address users.
> > > >
> > > > This only started happening a few weeks ago. I have had some
> > > success
> > > > having our users re-install TCP/IP and Dialup Networking,
> upgrading
> > > DUN to
> > > > 1.2, getting rid of extraneous protocols, and making sure that
> the
> > > > connectoid was only using TCP/IP, and not using Login to
> Network.
> > > >
> > > > Adding our DNS servers to their global DNS configuration is
> often
> > > necessary
> > > > to connect.
> > > >
> > > > This clears up the problem for some users, but there is a large
> > > percentage
> > > > still having trouble.
> > > >
> > > > Am I missing something somewhere?
> > > >
> > > > -Gabriel Emerson
> > > > Micro Solutions Consulting
> > > > <geme@baraboo.com>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>