When I saw my clients connecting at 49333 with V.90, I bought
a couple of USR/3Com externals. With one, I also get the ~50K
connect, and get reliable transfers rates at a flat out 56k (Win
98 even says 58K). But I have failed to make multilink work with
Win98 and the USRs. Even with the MTU backed to 576, the connect
speed choked to 40K, the DTE at 57K and the FIFO at one, I get
swamped with CRC errors, and experienced my first overruns and
framing errors. With BSDI, though, I can usually leave the MTU
at 1500, set the connect rate to 48K, and get day-long transfers
at well over 100K.
So, Win98 won't do multilink with the USRs. Should I have stayed
with internals, perhaps? Your thoughts and comments are invited,
as multilink is a very marketable product in a community that
doesn't have ISDN.
TIA
- drh
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