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 In article <817343200_OASIS_@the-gap.demon.co.uk>
  gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) said:-

>I've just started trying to use the new Southampton POP, and 
>dsicovered it's an Ascend. So I dug out all the info posted here over 
>the last few weeks, printed it out, actioned it, and away I went.
>
>None of it worked. I still couldn't connect.
>I added wait 1000 and status up to the end of my dial.txt, but no joy.
>I am using NOS 0.42, so it's not that either.

Try leaving your STARTUP.NOS as it was. Log in. After the logon 
sequence has completed wait about five to ten seconds then type:

ppp sl0

(Note the this is S-L-zero in lower case not S-one-zero.)

This should tell you about the connection. Round about the second 
paragraph you should see something about "LCP - waiting for remote 
host to open". Typing:

ifconfig sl0 up

should make the modem SD/RD lights flicker like they did for a non 
Ascend line. Typing:

ppp sl0

again should reveal that the connection has been made.

If this works, just assign it to a function key (I can't get the 
"wait" and "status up" thingies to work either).

>When I dial, everything seems to go very slowly ie. it's ages before 
>the login prompt appears then sometimes it hangs before logging in, 
>sometimes after. Always Crap. Good old Demon.

It can be slow but this sounds like something more serious than just 
your setup. A typical Ascend does the following:

dial tone - direct connection without rings - "du-finch" server. 

>I thought ok, let's try STiK and CAB. Similar thing, ages to login, then
>eventually the line always drops. All I did for STiK was change the phone
>number is that right?

Get NOS working first.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk