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"David Wood" <david@wood2.org.uk> wrote in message
news:6AVf3bFPWtp6EA$H@wood2.org.uk...
> In message <984vvb$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.
>
> >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.

bummer :(

what kind of compression (if any) _DOES_ the ascend kit support?

KArl