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Article #229Re: need help: problem running win95 ppp at 33.6 on older 486
From: dan pellerin
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:00
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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