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Re: Lousy connection via Dial-Up

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From: Van der Ivor
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:07
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Avleen Vig wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:35:22 +0100, "me" <news@noemail> wrote:
>
>>Firstly, I am a demon customer and have been using the service for years
>>now.
>>Over the last 6 connection to the games severs has become unbearable. I
>>always got lock-up just at the most inoportune moments. Up until know I
>>though it was my modem or phone line.
>>Numerous calls to BT followed by a new modem have highlighted that its not
>>me. Everytime the lock up occurs the CTS light on my modem goes out. Clear
>>to send is off yet there is a connection, RD and TD go balistic after around
>>30 seconds (but can be minutes).
>>
>>Its your connection to the games servers when I use the 'BT surftime' phone
>>number. I checked this was the case by overloading my connection on FTP and
>>HTTP. Downloaded BIG files and tried to surf at the same time. This was
>>overloading to the max and the connection was rock steady. None of this
>>dropping the CTS malarkey.
>>
>>Any chance of the connectivity being fixed.
>
>Heya :-)
>
>Idon't know if I'd blame Demon for this just yet - to me it looks like
>it could be your modem retraining.
>
>The answer to this is to set your modem to connect at a slightly
>slower speed.
>I assume you're connecting to the Blank ROMP.. what speed do you
>connect at, and what modem do you have? (make/model please)
>
>
>Av

No wonder he's having problems, connecting to the Blank ROMP!

Van der Ivor

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Subject: Re: Lousy connection via Dial-Up
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:07:23 +0100
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