🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:23:52 +0000, Ian Coombs-Lewis <ian@jelibeli.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>I don't know if anyone from Demon will read this, but it may be
>interesting to find out who is having what problems connecting to demon,
>using what modem and dialling from where.  This is my contribution...
>
>Problems with COLT 336, Energis 288 and local vPOP 288, using USR
>Sportster Voice 336 Internal and Turnpike, from Birmingham via
>Birmingham Cable.
>
>Follow-up with the same info about your problems, and we'll see if any
>kind of pattern emerges...

Well, here in Portsmouth from both Nynex and BT lines, we're having the same
problems:

[the following also mailed to dialup.faults@demon.net]

   For the past few days we have had problems with both the 0845
numbers. 0845 0798666 is providing particularly bad connections;
it almost always connects at 26400 instead of 28800, and such a
connection is always lacking any real service - i.e. it goes into PPP 
mode (or appears to), but then nothing responds - as if the DNS
servers had been cut off or something. When connected at 28800, the
connection is ok, but only lasts for a short while - 10-20 minutes 
usually, then the line drops.

   0845 3535666 is better - no line drops at all if connected, but 
again, if the connect is at 26400 nothing works. About 70% of 
connections seem to at 26400 now, and we have to redial immediately on 
seeing that it is connecting at that rate because it's useless letting 
it continue.

   Our setup has not changed. I have tried it from home using a 
different PC, different modem, different software, different operating 
system and different telephone provider - so this is *not* a problem at 
our end. 26400 connects used to happen once every 20-30 dialins, and 
were never 100% failures, though they did sometimes have the no-response 
problem that they now always have.

--
Damien Burke - email: damien@rnsett.demon.co.uk
Opinions are mine alone and do not represent RNSETT.