On 1/25/07, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/25/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had the problem of only 2KB/s on Debian and 4 on Windows. I fiddled
> around with it and discovered that when I ran "wvdial" it would do the
> full 4 (you get 30-50 with dialup?!
Oops I meant Kb/s :-) Big difference in the capitalization heh.
Ah, that sounds more like the dial-up I'm familiar with. Ugh. Better
than nothing, though, which is exactly what I have now...!
> You might try using wvdial, and also enabling all
> the compression parameters in the ppp conf file. Somehow there is a
> way to find out exactly what wvdial is using for parameters when it
> gives control of the connection to pppd; that is what I had to use.
> wvdial does the connecting, pppd takes care of the rest, when wvdial
> is used. Sorry I can't give more specifics, the computer is someone
> else's and my memory of the incident is incomplete.
Ok so I just run wvdial with no parameters? I used ppconfig to setup
the ppp connection. I just type "pon ispc.com" to connect and "poff
isp.com" to disconnect. Can you send me your wvdial.conf and ppp
config file?
Well, here is what I figured out about wvdial. If anything I say here
is incorrect, hopefully someone will throw up a red flag about it.
Anyway, pppd, when pon is run, will initiate the modem by sending it
some commands, like to turn off the modem speaker, and tell it to dial
the number, etc. This is "chatting". Then, after the chat part is
done, pppd takes care of the connection until poff tells it to
disconnect. That's without wvdial at all.
wvdial does chatting and then uses pppd to take care of the
connection. This uses a different configuration file, and I think
doesn't require any the ppp conf stuff. If I remember right, the ppp
connection can be configured for wvdial with wvdialconf. Anyway, you
can connect with wvdial then and after it has started pppd, find out
what parameters/options pppd was run with and incorporate them in the
ppp conf file if you want to use pppd without wvdial. You could, if
you wanted, just use wvdial instead of pon/poff. I wanted to use pppd
because that is what ifup/ifdown uses; I suppose I could change that
somehow, but don't know how.
If you want to use pppd only, the first thing I would do is go through
the man page for the pppd conf file and turn on all the compression
options and optimize the mtu and mru (576 maybe?). If that doesn't
fix it, then try out wvdial.
Hopefully this will give you some things to try at the least.
> -- I don't have decent access to the Internet now, so replies come rarely.
Ok.
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