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56k worked and then stopped...

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From: Danny
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:00
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Hi all,

I have been using the Demon beta 56k line for several months without problem,
using a K56Flex no-name modem and Warp3 fixpack35.

A couple of days ago it stopped working...  I can connect, and I can
ping news.demon.co.uk for instance, but nothing else works - news doesn't start,
I can't get to any web site, and even finger status@gate doesn't.

All this works if I connect with same modem to the 33k number.

I am using the slipout .cmd, and I have different slip.cfg files with the different
telephone numbers (ie slip.33 has the standard phone number, slip.56 has the
beta number), but other than that all else is the same, I just copy the appropriate
slip file to slip.cfg before dialling.

I have tried resetting the modem to it's default (AT&F0), with no change, and
Demon tell me that 56k should be OK - no other complaints.  I have checked that
my resolv2 file has the correct DNS entries - 

domain demon.co.uk
nameserver 158.152.1.193
nameserver 158.152.1.65

So now I don't know what can be wrong unless the modem has a fault at high
speed.

Any help would be appreciated.

By the way, I signed up for the Yahoo! Email, and friends berated me for thinking
that the pager applet they use wouldn't work in OS/2, but lo and behold the
Java version of the pager works fine (although it places loads of tasks in
Object Desktop tab launchpad!)

Regards,
Danny
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From: Danny@midlife.demon.co.uk@demon.co.uk
Subject: 56k worked and then stopped...
Date: 1998/06/13
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