> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > > asyncmap 0x00000000
> > >
> > > Fixes basically everything. The file now downloads at 10.54 K/s, I have very
> > > few slowdowns whatsoever.
> >
> > This is bogus. A all-zero async map means that no characters are
> > escaped, so everything is transmitted as-is. So, so all those
> > "special characters" are still being transmitted over the link. Besides
> > "special characters" aren't supposed to cause retrains, because the
> > connection should be 8-bit clean.
> >
> > However, if your asyncmap contains a lot of bits, PPP will have to
> > escape a lot of characters, causing a lot of extra traffic to be
> > transmitted.
>
> Well, could Jaime's suggestion (see below) be possible then? It may be
> possible that DUN<->ComOs are trying to do both hardware and software flow
> controls at the same time, thus causing "confusion" and eventual
> "lockups".
software flow control should be turned off. Win95 will escape the
XON/XOFF characters regardless, most likely because it may not know if the
modem really has it turned off.
Tom