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Rar - I'm getting ready for some travel so may not be able to keep upwith the news group. I'll sincerely appreciate if any responsescan either be e-mailed to crs@swcp.com or, at least, Cc:ed to thataddress if the reply is thought to be of general interest.As you will see, I'm no modem expert. :(I recently purchased a USR5686E 56K Faxmodem, v.92 because my aging28.8K modem is showing signs of impending death.This modem has never, to my knowledge, connected at greater speedthan 26.4Kbps--nor did I expect it to. to my knowledge, no modemever has via my phone line. That is not my question.My question has to do with how long it takes this modem to connect.Well, perhaps "connect" is the wrong word--perhaps I should havesaid "negotiate."Here's what happens: When it dials out, in short order, modemcarrier is heard. This continues for nearly a minute with variousbongs and beeps before it is satisfied and allows ppp to log on.At first, I had trouble getting an actual working connection to myISP until I remembered the ppp timeout that I'd set at 40 seconds.Once I increased that to 90 seconds--I could possibly use less--Iwas able to achieve working connection.By various kludges, I've managed to delay things long enough towait for the working connection but it's annoying, especially, whenI'm waiting to, say, run a web browser or some other interactivetask.I'm running user ppp Version 2.24 on my freeBSD 3.4 machine.I've already mentioned that I'm way-inexpert about modems but onepossibility occurred to me: Can it be that the modem is trying toconnect first at 56K and then stepping down, one speed at a timeuntil it reaches a workable speed?I am, of course, open to other suggestions.Anyways: Thinking that, I did try using at&u1&n14 in the hope ofbracketing the speeds to something reasonable for my phone linebut couldn't get the system to work at all that way--don't knowwhy. As I understood the meagre documentation, while setting&n *alone* means that the modem will hang up if it can'tconnect at *that* speed, setting both, sets a floor and a ceilingbetween which it should try to connect. Perhaps I'm misunderstandingthat.Anyways, I shall sincerely appreciate if anyone can suggest a wayto get the modem to reach an acceptable (to it) connection morequickly.I don't mind it it is at 28.8K levels--e.g. the 26.4K maximum thatI've experienced with all modems that I've tried on this phoneline. I'd just like for it to jump to that speed and get on withthings.Please let me know if I can clarify anything. The model numberquoted above came from the sticker on the bottom of the modem.Thanks and kindest regards,Charlie----Charlie Sorsbycrs@swcp.comP. O. Box 1225
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