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Re: need help: problem running win95 ppp at 33.6 on older 486

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From: dan pellerin
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:00
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I believe that it has to do with the motherboard not being uart16650
compatible or something to that effect..  Can't remember off the top of my
head.  I think you will be stuck at 19.2k
dan


>All great, except that when I'm receiving packets flat out at 33.6,
>e.g. during a large file download or when fetching the news headers
>from a high volume newsgroup, after a few hundred K
>the packets stop flowing.  The cute simulated modem
>lights on the task bar are glowing green, the download
>stats are marching away, Netscape's ftp gives download
>speeds at modem speeds or slightly higher, and then
>suddenly the modem lights are red -- and at that point,
>I can't get packets to flow from ANYTHING: ping,
>web, anything.  However when I disconnect and reconnect,
>everything is fine again.  And everything stays fine as
>long as I don't do something that causes a lot of packets
>to arrive at modem speeds.
>
>I have found that lowering the modem speed to 14.4 (well,
>setting the modem and comm port to 19.2) pretty much
>makes this problem disappear.
>
>I tried playing with the 16550 send/receive buffer settings;
>doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
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From: "dan pellerin" <danipell@sl.lakeheadu.ca>
Subject: Re: need help: problem running win95 ppp at 33.6 on older 486
Date: 1997/11/17
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