Re: Terrible USR Problems

Dan Struthers (dstruth@bserv.com)
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:14:46 -0500

We use USR sportsters ourselves and here are three items that will help;

-take the tops off (for cooling)
-use a DTE speed of 57600
-set s10=20 or higher

These three things stabilized our pool to the point where I would call them
reliable. Read - no problems in the last two months.
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>On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Hal A. Lightwood wrote:
>
>> We are running Portmaster 2e's with USR Sporster 28.8 and 33.6k modems
and are
>> having terrible reliability problems. Occasionally a modem will
>> connect and just send garbage, sometimes it just disconnects
>> them immediatly and a very very small percentage of them time it just
>> rings through (probably the teleco's fault on this one though).
>>
>> We have the following types of modems and use the same init string
>> on all of them...
>>
>>
>> Does anybody have alot of experience with this kind of setup? I am
>> getting really tired of hearing from users displeased with our
>> service when they have to dialin 3-4 times to get a stable
>
>
>Yes, I must admit I've been experiencing similar problems. We have our
>modems set up, like nearly everybody else, on a hunt group. Even when
>the modems are completely full, people occaisionally get ring through on
>modems that seem to not want to answer. The disconnection problems you
>describe seem to happen at my site as well.
>
>The long and the short of it is this: If you find a problem, please let
>me know.
>
>--Chris
>ICenterNet
>Administrator
>204-958-9400
>
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Dan Struthers

The solution to any problem lies in its proper definition.
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