🚀 go-pugleaf

Your modem's connection depends on the noise in your phone line and the
capabiltity of your ISP. Full 56KBps may not be possible if your ISP isn't
56k V90 capable. make sure these are not part of your problems.

root wrote:

> Thank you all who gave me help getting my modem and Netscape running.  I
> finally can connect using Usernet and then my Netscape works as well.
>
> Now, my first question is, I have a SupraExpress 56i modem and I am
> getting incredibly slow connection rates.  Generally less than 1k.  I
> have the modem speed set at 115200 but that obviously isn't making any
> difference.  Anyone know what I can do to increase my connection speeds?
>
> My second question is, how do I set up priveledges so that I can start
> up PPP as a user.  Currently I can only connect as root and would really
> rather not do that.
>
> Here's some system info...
>
> RH6.1 running on an AMD K6 -233 Mhz
> SupraExpress 56k internal ISA modem
> Using Usernet (rp3 1.0) to connect
> Netscape 4.61
> X-Chat IRC Client
>
> TIA
> Patrum