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In message <984vvb$dja$1@soap.pipex.net>, Lawrence Groves 
<lgroves@mail.hadenmac.com> writes
>Windows2000 doesn't support any of the options offered by Demon 
>directly.

That's not quite true. Demon's configurator interacts differently with 
the various ROMPs. With the Ascend kit (Purple including g4 and g5, also 
Red) it pretty much tells it what to offer, but the 3Com kit (Green) and 
Cisco kit (Blue) doesn't pay a lot of attention. Blue offers compression 
types that can't be configured via Web Password that work with NT 4 RAS 
and Windows 2000 - I believe Green does, too.


>That's because MS removed STAC compression when the moved from NT to 
>2000.

I've read that before in demon.service.isdn, and it's wrong. Microsoft 
didn't remove any compression options from Windows 2000. Windows 2000's 
dial up code is based on NT4's RAS, which equally doesn't have any 
support for STAC compression. Even Microsoft wouldn't, I'm sure, take 
out useful features when producing the next version for no good reason.

Windows 9x/ME has STAC compression, but that's a completely different 
code base. Despite the name, Windows 2000 is NT 5 - I can't think that 
there's very much code in it that's been stolen from Windows 9x.


>However, 2000 can negotiate compression with the kit at certain ROMPs. 
>I successfully use the Blue ROMP with compression under 2000. I have my 
>compression option on the WebPassword page set to 'MS-STAC'.

Correct - and it's recommended you set MS_STAC, though I have a feeling 
it's not strictly necessary.

>NOTE: a lot of the other ROMP's kit will not negotiate this new type of
>compression (for example, the surftime numbers IIRC). So the most 
>important thing to check is the number you are dialling.

The Ascend kit, as I've said, doesn't offer any compression types that 
will work with NT / Windows 2000.




David
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David Wood
david@wood2.org.uk