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David Appleton wrote:
> 
> In article <328796D9.3C34@helion.demon.co.uk>, Michael Brown
> <mikeb@helion.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Phil Hodey wrote:
> >>
> >> I can connect to the new beta lines at 33.6k with my upgraded courier v34
> >> but it hangs up within 10 seconds, is there a problem, or am I not set up
> >> correctly?
> >>
> >> Phil Hodey
> >> phil@pjhodey.demon.co.uk
> >
> >Some more info would be helpful - are you using Win NT 4.0?  From you're
> >earlier postings I am guessing you are - if so, disable all RAS
> >Protocols except TCP/IP and turn off 'Enable Software compression' and
> >'Enable PPP LCP extensions' on your dial up entry settings (on the
> >'Server' tab).
> >
> Which goes against the help advice of NT 4.0. This says to use Software
> Compression and Disable Hardware Compression!. I did this and
> immediately got another 0.5 KBytes / Sec or so (no exact figures) out of
> the connection.

I know that NT 4.0 advises you to use both PPP LCP extensions and
software compression and that would be good advice if you were
connecting to an NT4.0 RAS server but for anything else it's best to let
the modem do the compression and lose the LCP extensions - infact, if
you don't disable LCP extensions your line will always get dropped by
the Ascends at Telehouse.  Enabling Software compression will just make
NT take longer 'registering your computer on the network' whilst it
figures out that the Ascend servers don't support it.

I don't know why you're getting such low throughput, a lot depends on
how busy Demon is - you could have a leased line at home but if Demon's
giving you data at 0.5Kb/s then that's all you're gonna get.

Michael
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