Re: (PM) pm3 disconnects

Doug Hardie (bc979@lafn.org)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:24:22 -0800

At 9:16 PM -0800 3/24/99, Greg Nancekivell wrote:
>Since Sunday the disconnects have been going through the roof. I've checked
>checked with the telco and everything is fine I swapped out one of the PM3's
>with an AS5200 and the problem went away. The PM3's have been working fine
>(except for a marginally higher disconnect rate than the AS5200s) until now.
>I'm running 3.8.2 on the PM3's does anyone have any thoughts on what could
>be happening or how I could fix it I have rebooted the PM3's but it did not
>help. This is happening with a wide variety of modems as well, not just one
>brand. I have noticed that my upstream internet bandwidth supplier has been
>having difficulty and is dropping packets is their any reason why the PM3's
>would be more affected than the AS5200s.
>
>M10 S3 ACTIVE 42000 V42BIS LAPM 72 1 CIRCUIT
>DISCONNECT
>M11 S17 ACTIVE 42000 V42BIS LAPM 58 4 LAPM DISCONNECT
>This is what I see on a sho modem there is no normal disconnects on any of
>the PM3's now.
>Any thoughts.
>
>

That sounds just like what I have been through. In my case the teco had
changed the padding and hence the levels to the PM3. When I got them to
fix that, the disconnect rate fell drastically. Its not zero, but
tollerable for V32 and older modems.

-- Doug

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