> We tested the box about 3 meteres away from the switch. I was dialing in
Very nice that you have that option.
> from another PM3 in another POP (which can, by the way, dial to our other
> PM3s without a single failure at 33600 everytime). We got 16800, 21600, or
> NO CARRIER connects, sometimes even connects without error correction with
> garbage flying up the screen. The interesting part - ISDN connect were
> just fine every time.
I think there was a problem with b13 and USR modems not connecting well
that was supposedly solved by b17 according to the release notes.
This is a line from the B15 notes:
Interoperability problems with several V.34 modems have been fixed.
This is from B17:
* V.90 interoperability is improved.
* V.34 support in the "True Digital 56K Card" is improved.
> So I decided it could be a problem with the modem card and disabled the
> first 3 modem chips (set m0 off, set m1 off, ...). 33600 connect
> everytime. Ok, so it IS a bad card. Is it? We put the card in the second
> slot and enabled all the modem chips - nice 33600 connect every time.
same card? What happened when you put it back in 1st slot?
> What can we conclude from this? Is it a bad card or bad chassis (it's a
> PM3-1E)? Anybody seen anything like this - the first modem chip not
It would have to be problem with slot if it works in other slots.
> wanting to work correctly in the first slot? I just want to be sure before
> running out to my distributor and yelling at them (they already shipped us
> a bad PM3 once, it locked solid every couple of days). For now we left the
> card in the second slot and put the PM3 back to its place and I will be
> informing our users to start testing the second number.
Put a different card in slot 0 OR try orig card back in slot 0. Maybe it
wasnt fully seated.
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