The counterintiutive solution to my connection issues.

Well I finally got a case to put the guts of my old machine in.
This let me hook up my old Aopen FM56/ITU2 ISA modem again.

Unfortunately one of the network cards had died so it seemed useless.
Then I checked and, sure enough, the motherboard in my main system had
an onboard lan system.

Link up and all is good (after a lot of tweaking.)

My connection no longer loses DNS so I don't have to reconnect all the
time.
But, I seemed to be getting a lot more LCTMs - as in one every 5-10
minutes - the good news was that it always regained connection.

Watching the LAN and dialup connections on the old machine via the task
manager I noticed that every time I got an LCTM the dialup connection
dropped to 0 usage.

Having also noticed that at no time did the dialup connection ever
exceed 60% usage I decide to try dropping the connection rate.

So the solution to what seemed to be a saturated link, was to drop from
49.3k to 33.5k.

Not only is it smoother, but I jacked all the graphics up to high levels
and even turned the physics stuff on, and still no LCTMS at all.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

On Jun 20, 12:16 pm, Xocyll <Xoc....TakeThisOut@kingston.net> wrote:
> Well I finally got a case to put the guts of my old machine in.
> This let me hook up my old Aopen FM56/ITU2 ISA modem again.
>
> Unfortunately one of the network cards had died so it seemed useless.
> Then I checked and, sure enough, the motherboard in my main system had
> an onboard lan system.
>
> Link up and all is good (after a lot of tweaking.)
>
> My connection no longer loses DNS so I don't have to reconnect all the
> time.
> But, I seemed to be getting a lot more LCTMs - as in one every 5-10
> minutes - the good news was that it always regained connection.
>
> Watching the LAN and dialup connections on the old machine via the task
> manager I noticed that every time I got an LCTM the dialup connection
> dropped to 0 usage.
>
> Having also noticed that at no time did the dialup connection ever
> exceed 60% usage I decide to try dropping the connection rate.
>
> So the solution to what seemed to be a saturated link, was to drop from
> 49.3k to 33.5k.
>
> Not only is it smoother, but I jacked all the graphics up to high levels
> and even turned the physics stuff on, and still no LCTMS at all.
>
> Xocyll
> --
> I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
> Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

You realize this is the Geek equivalent of you speaking Latin. The
number of people in general who have any idea what you're talking
about is getting smaller everyday.

Eventually, this info will go the way of LPs and 8 tracks.




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