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kadams@junior.wariat.org (Kevin Adams) wrote:

>Grant R. Guenther (grant@gear.torque.net) wrote:
>: I've lost track of the state of PPP support in Linux.  Can anybody summarise
>: the gotchas that I will encounter if I go this way ?  If anyone is actually
>: doing this - taking an incoming PPP connection from a BitSurfr - I'd appreciate
>: hearing about your experiences.  Also, any comments about the internal model
>: of the BitSurfr would be helpful.

>Well, I'm not sure what I could tell you with regard to the actual ISDN
>connection but I bought myself a Bitsurfer and its working fine on with my
>modem over the POTS (Plain old Telephone Service) port.  I have yet to try
>the ISDN portion as my ISP hasn't gotten back to me with a couple of
>questions.  If you have the choice get an external TA. That way you only have
>to run an RS232 cable between the TA (like a modem) and the serial port.
>You have to worry about getting drivers for the internal version 
>(PLEASE! Anyone correct me if I'm wrong).

> 
>Hell, I like the POTS connection by itself.  when I do a ping while doing
>ppp to my ISP its returning a time of 160-170ms  where as it was 200ms
>on my regular line.


That ping time sounds very excessive in either case...  Where are you
pinging?
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