ISP Information:
The department at most companies that everyone loves to hate. MIS people are the people who work with Information Technology, now more commonly referred to as the IT department.
ISP Glossary:
Management Information Systems/Services - In comp.dcom.modems on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:40:57 GMT "Hooda Gest" posted:"meirman" wrote in messagenews:1ghauvcoggbjocm3678jb6ts232h0hen6e@4ax.com... It is long distance. Calling Virginia was also his idea and I don't think it helped that first day, but it's helped three days since. Maybe this will give them a clue how to fix the Baltimore lines.I doubt it. If the problem is between the telco and the ISP's POP inBaltimore then the ISP could have some leverage in getting it fixed. Whatthat would require is an effort on the part of the ISP to track theseproblems/complaints from customers served by that POP and bring the issue tothe telco which provides the lines to the POP. The problem is that some ofthese POPs are shared. That is, the POP is leased by by multiple ISPs and isindependent of any of them. A clue to this is in your login name used; if itincludes the ISP name (ex: jsmith@elcheapo.net ) in the login then the oddsare that the POP is a multi-use one. The ISP name is needed for routing theuser to the right ISP. If your login process only requires your user name(ex: jsmith) then the odds are very good that the POP is not shared. With ashared POP, the ISP might refer these problems to the POP provider but hasno control over what happens after that (well, beyond threatening to taketheir business elsewhere, that is).They have local newsgroups where people could complain**, and I'm theonly one who has been complaining about this. Of course they havenever publicised these local newsgroups, and I'm sure 80 or 90% ofsubscribers don't know about them.**They don't have anyone reading the newsgroups officially, butsometimes employees read and reply. It answers every time and I get connections from 18,000 to 52,000.18,000??? Never heard of that connect speed.16800, 19200... but never 18000Sorry. Roughly 18000. I can't remember all the various speeds I'veconnected at. Maybe it was 19200.Now I'm at 21600 and the email and news are working fine, and the webmight be a little slower. Interestingly, the 52,000 always works, but even a speed as high as 49,600 might not let any data go back or forth, except 600 one way and 500 the other iirc. Lower speeds are even more likely to be no-data-flow.That would be strange. Have you tried disabling everything above V.34?I'm confused. Wouldn't that ensure that connections were always atlower speeds. I like the higher speeds when I can get them. Would ithelp me identify the problem to the ISP so they could fix it? But not all the time. I can get connections reported at 33,000, etc. or even 18,000 where the email goes as fast it seems to at 52000, and the newsgroups go just as fast it seems, and the web works fine but slow. Maybe they report 18,000 and speed up later?? Is that possible?Yes and no. I still don't understand an 18000bps connection. I'd like to seea copy of the modem's CONNECT report from one of these 18000bps conenctions.Would you still feel that way if it was 19200? Or maybe text files are so short, it's the speed of my computer that sets the speed.Well, a shorter file would usually get through easier and seemingly fasterthan a long one (less chance for error during the brief transmission). Youneed to compare download speeds using compressed data files of a significantlength. You cannot really judge that by calling up web pages or using smalland/or highly compressible files.OK.Thanks.MeirmanIf emailing, please let me know whetheror not you are posting the same letter.Change domain to erols.com, if necessary.
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