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In message <ant311822868a*2k@whtng.demon.co.uk>
          Paul Whiting <paul@whtng.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Forgive me for breaking the newbie six-month rule, but I have a rather
> pressing problem: my sister's A3010 is struggling on the Internet. She has
> 4MBytes RAM, 82MByte HD with 25MBytes free, ANT Internet suite 1.22,
> Dynalink 33600 voice/fax/data modem, Demon internet account, and 2 
> extension cables (3m and 15m) plugged into each other. The problem 
> specifically is grindingly slow access for the first few minutes of use,
> and then stationary access. There are a great many (about 3-5 per second)
> 'Bad FCS on frame count...' errors in the logging window at this stage.

Have you loaded SerialBuff and all possible Acorn serial patches/utils ?
I presume you are running at 19,200.

What version PPP do you have ?

I run PPP through about 10m of extension cable and have no trouble with
FCSs (on an RPC) once the logon has completed.

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