[Coco] Modem ISP Problem (sort of OT)

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Unless someone flashed the V.92 updates into it. 

All modems manufactured after abou t 1999 were flashable to change to V.90, 
KFLEX and other protocols that might arouse. 

In dialup service using PPP you do not have to have compression tuerned on in the 
modem to connect to the ISP. PPP already does compression and if you do 
compression in the modem, the ISP modems may not recognize the compression 
techneque. The modem comresses an already compresses signal. This may 
actuallly slow down throughput. Why, Most large ISPs do not use hardware 
modems. They use soft modems instead. These soft modems may or maynot 
accept the often default MN5 compression used by most hradware modems. Soft 
modem are cheaper when you consider that a line may have a bridge of 100 or 200 
users  connections. 

james


On 27 Aug 2005 at 8:48, Vern Burke wrote:

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> If it's a 2000 vintage modem as stated, it's highly unlikely to have
> V.92 .
> 
> Vern
> 
> 
> Kenneth Schunk wrote:
> > I've seen this before, and it was related to the (getting fuzzy
> > here) V.92 setting on the modem (or something like that). When I
> > went into the setup for the modem and disabled that, restricting it
> > to (I think) V.90 it connected fine. It's been a couple of years
> > since then so I might have the "V." terms wrong.
> > 
> > Since it's an external you can try this:
> > 
> > 1 - take it to the neighbor's house and try it there. No connect -
> > it's the modem or the modem setup. 2 - if possible, use your
> > neighbor's modem to connect at your house. 
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
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