Re: [TCLUG:11670] modems was: Re: [TCLUG:11596] Two-way cable

[adam@iexposure.com]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>         what mystifies me is that some people can connect fine to their ISP;
> but have trouble connecting to us. especially in a couple cases I've hear
> recently; where people's modems are pretty obviously hosed (really *bad*
> connect tones). I'm willing to blame a lot of it on bad phone lines (we have
> a lot of very rural users); but there's some cases I can't explain away that
> easily.

The BBS isn't using PRI's or CT-1's, right?  Maybe a combination of
mediocre phone lines at the user end, and a mediocre analog line on your
end is enough.  People that have decent phone lines at home connect
fine, but you're just far enough away/have just enough noise to push it
over the line.  Just speculation.  When I ran HFO out of Shoreview
(20,000 feet from the CO) I rarely saw 28.8 connections between me and a
user.  Usually the best was 26.4 or 24k.  Very few people got more than
28.8

Could also be an incompatability between the modems.  You're using
Couriers, which should alleviate most of the problems..but some really
shitty modems only work well with other really shitty modems.

>         other thing to blame is the software; since we supply them with the
> software to connect to us (it's based on an old version of minicom). I think
> that's a problem in some cases.
>         still, I'll be much happier when we move to a windows-based version
> of the connection software (as opposed to the dos-based one). no more
> mucking around with configuring the modem, if it already works for their ISP.
>         better yet, they're making noises about doing all this stuff over
> FTP and the Net. I've come up with a scheme to handle the server-side stuff;
> using Linux... remains to be seen if anyone will listen to me, since the
> people in charge of the software are a bunch of UNIX-phobes. :(
> 
> Carl Soderstrom.
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
> 
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Adam Maloney
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Internet Exposure, Inc.