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With a 14.4 modem, I'd HIGHLY recommend setting the port speed to 38400 or
possibly 57600. Older Macs (Plus, SE, etc) will have a problem with this,
but a 165 should handle it fine. GV just has flakey problems with MacPPP,
I see it every day.

Jon

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950714164508.11063B-100000@suma3.reading.ac.uk>,
Mike Roch <suqroch@reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> Option 1, below, turned out to be correct. Although my modem can run at 
> 14400baud, setting the Port Speed of Config in ConfigPPP to 9600 allowed 
> the modem to be detected. A 14400 connection was established, at which 
> point I uped the Port Speed to 14400 too (no idea if this made a _real_ 
> difference!)
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Butch Kemper wrote:
> > This indicates that MacPPP was unsuccessful in initializing the modem.
> > This can be caused by 1) an communications speed to the modem that the
> > modem is unable to support; 2) a modem init option that the modem does not
> > understand.
> >
> > In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950713090426.10184D-100000@suma3.reading.ac.uk>,
> > Mike Roch <suqroch@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > I am trying to run MacPPP on a couple of Macs and not getting very far!
> > > 1. Powerbook 165c; Sys7.1, Global Village PowerPort Gold, MacPPP 2.2
> > > On starting PPP, it gives:
> > > MacPPP status:
> > > Checking for modem
> > > (click from speaker; menubar modem indicator appears)
> > > and after 5-6 seconds it reports
> > > PPP wait timeout! Waiting on:
> > > OK
> > > and the menubar modem indicator disappears.