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  From: Darryl Ross <darryl@bachblue.com.au>
  To  : Rick Marshall" <rjm@herzfeld.com.au>, "Alan Kennington <rjm@herzfeld.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:02:35 +1030

Re: Modem Problems

>Alan Kennington wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> I agree that noise could be triggering the modem problems,
>> but it's unlikely to be the reason it stays around.
>>
>> The nature of the problem is that the line is perfect for
>> about 2 to 30 days, and then it goes wrong until the modem is
>> reset. I kept it in the pathological state for
>> about 8 hours last time, logging every single packet.
>> And when I re-start pppd, the problem goes away for
>> many more days.
>>
>> It's unlikely that the noise would just stop when I
>> restart pppd.
>
>Correct (trivially) but i fthe modem has tracked down to a slow baud
>rate to cope with the line then resetting will provide a magic fix.

So, the modem is slowing down when there is noise on the line, but not
realising that the noise has gone away, and so not speeding up again?
Reading through the manual for the modem, there is a swtich to "enable line
quality monitor and fallback/fall forward". If this is the problem, setting
this option would solve the problem? The option is %E2, so I need to at that
to my initialisation string?

Cheers
Dazz


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