IMHO, the 5.66 version of the LT Winmodem firmware absolutely stinks. I
upgraded to it from 5.54 and started getting too aggressive connections,
tons of retrains, and assorted other nonsense.
Your milage my vary, of course.
Andy Guerriero
FoxBerry Network
Internet Services Manager
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-portmaster-modems@livingston.com
> [mailto:owner-portmaster-modems@livingston.com]On Behalf Of mick
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:01 PM
> To: portmaster-modems@livingston.com
> Subject: (PMOD) Lucent LT Winmodem and Com OS 3.9b24
>
>
> hi all -
>
> we upgraded to Com OS 3.9b24 three weeks ago, and have had a
> few people
> call in with trouble - most of which has been resolved by either
> limiting the connection rate or updating the client firmware.
> i've got
> a peculiar one now, though ..
>
> customer called in shortly after the upgrade, couldn't get connected.
> we determined that he had an LT Winmodem (came installed in his IBM
> Thinkpad) and applied the most recent firmware upgrade - this appeared
> to fix the problem at the time.
>
> two days later, he called back, saying that he could not get connected
> again. since then, i have tried everything i can think of to get him
> hooked back up. we've tried various combinations of error and flow
> control, including -v90=1 in the init string, adding 2, 3 and 4 commas
> to the end of the phone number. just recently, i had him lower the
> maximum connect speed from 57600 to 38400, and now the modem hangs
> during handshaking.
>
> wondering if anyone can offer any further suggestions. we have one
> machine that we didn't upgrade, and will be giving him the number for
> it, but it would be very useful to get an idea of what's going on here
> so that we might be able to resolve similar issues in the future.
>
> many thanks.
>
> - mick szucs -
> onramp network services inc.
>
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