Article View: comp.os.linux.misc
Article #1028Re: Slow Modem
From: Robert Hoar
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:00
33 lines
1805 bytes
1805 bytes
I had the same problem with a VERY SLOW modem! seemed I changed the init string from the default to AT &FV1 &C1 &D2 ADD M0 if you don't want that dang sound Worked for me. Red 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
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3872E0B5.FD61A340@yahoo.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<386FB8DC.58835EE6@erols.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5910,675c953d82d4ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5910,public X-Google-Thread: 11663c,675c953d82d4ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,675c953d82d4ee75 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public From: Robert Hoar <srhoar@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Slow Modem Date: 2000/01/05 Message-ID: <3872E0B5.FD61A340@yahoo.com> X-Deja-AN: 568508045 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <386FB8DC.58835EE6@erols.com> To: root <patrum@erols.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 5 Jan 2000 06:12:00 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,dc.org.linux-users,alt.uu.comp.os.linux