[DuoList] Bad dial-up

[Jim Allen]

I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you a technical explanation, but here's
some  anecdotal help. I once had a similar (almost identical) problem and it
was infrastructure related. After a couple of years of verbally abusing my
ISP (who was always nice despite it), they finally convinced me it was
infrastructure related. When I started calling the phone company (the ISP
and phone service were different entities, but both local),  I  got every
excuse in the book, ending with the, "we don't guarantee anything but a dial
tone and a voice connection," that kinda ends all the conversation. The
phone company's wiring and switching gear was old and even our phone
service was not particularly reliable. The proof came when I took the same
machine to a part of the country with better infrastructure (oddly a much
more rural area) and had no more problems.
 
Jim Allen


> From: Roger Gouin <roger at islandnet.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."
> <duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:06:24 -0700
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."
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> Subject: Re: [DuoList] Bad dial-up
> 
> At 1:39 AM -0400 4/22/05, mark didine wrote:
>> Months and months, getting dropped every few minutes, I phoned
>> Network Help, and one guy said they don't support FreePPP anymore.
>> What else is there? Something better than 2.6.2 ?
>> 
>> p.s. I'm not sure it's not my old 2nd-hand Wallstreet, OS 9.2.1.
>> One guy said it must be on my end because they don't send
>> cut-off signals; their modems are just on all the time.
>> True?
>> Screwed?
> 
> There's a greater chance it's something else and probably a bad phone
> line. I had a hell of a time with one place I was living because the
> phone line ran right beside the power line and it's was impossible
> when it rained. Any way check for interference from other wires and
> devices. (Some TVs may interfere) and can you hear any cracking on
> the line. There's also another debatable issue of crossed polarity in
> the house wiring, I read about somewhere.
> Seems to me the other issue is. They either support PPP or they
> don't. Of course, there may be other factors.
> 
> 
> Roger,
> 
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