Re: (PM) 56k modems retraining

Daniel Henry (pchenry@koyote.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:34:41 -0600

yes .. I also experience this .. not only with 56K connections. I have had
alot of 33.6's fall down to 19200 and below after a long period of time. I
would also LOVE to find a solution for this.

Daniel Henry
Vice President / Systems Administrator
Koyote Internet
-----Original Message-----
From: Irve Towers <irvet@knight-hub.com>
To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 5:26 AM
Subject: (PM) 56k modems retraining

>I've had 3 different 56k modems here at my home, Acer internal, Zoom
>External, and Motorola External. All have at least V1.12 release of the
>Rockwell firmware. All connected everytime at 46k plus however after some
>period of connect time (mostly idle time) all of them re-negotiate the
>speed down to 24k. I just wrote it off initially as a modem/firmware issue
>but after 3 different brands I have to wonder.. Our PM3 is running 3.7.2
>COMOS.
>The client end still reports the 46k+ speeds but the PM3 reports 24k.
>The interesting thing is the 56K indicator on the latest (Zoom) also goes
>off so it would appear
>the v.8 connection is truly ending and dropping back to V.34 (the V.34
>light comes on with the Zoom).
>Anyone else seeing this phenomenon? Anything can be done to prevent the
>fallback?
>Digitally yours,
>Irve Towers
>The Hub Internet Services - Washington DC - http://www.knight-hub.com/
>Alternate e-mail -> support@knight-hub.com -> webmaster@knight-hub.com
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