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

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From: Eric Gisin
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:00

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In article <879732251.26486@dejanews.com>, tjf@pacbell.net says...
> I put in a U.S. Robotics 33.6 internal modem, set its jumpers
> for COM4 and IRQ 5, tested the modem with HyperTerminal,
> ,,,
> 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 ...
> suddenly the modem lights are red -- and at that point,
>...

I have heard of the flow stalling everytime a disk write occurs, but 
that's not your problem. Did you try the modem on COM3, IRQ not 5?
 
> Is this a known problem with the Win95 stack?  Is there

No, but try downloading DUN 1.2 from Microsoft anyway.

-- 
Eric Gisin, London.on.ca -- WinNT/UNIX/TCP/IP Consulting
http://www.webhaven.com/ericg/ mailto:ericg@techie.com

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From: ericg@skynet.ca (Eric Gisin)
Subject: Re: need help: problem running win95 ppp at 33.6 on older 486
Date: 1997/11/21
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