The second would be if they delete or format their hard drives, which
seems to happen more than it should, you have a longer period of time
before the modem loses it's factory settings and they call you up and ask,
"What's wrong with your servers today."
So IMHO I don't see the advantage of leaving it off, unless you have a
business application for it, where you would know better anyways. But in
any case we are living great lives if this is our biggest concern for
today!
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 to be pedantic about this :-)
>
> 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>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>