Re: "connection timed out" problem

Replying for both Moe (dig the ID, btw) and Sebastian.

Thanks again for all your help.

OK...my old modem is a USR Sporster 56k external on the com port.
Runs like a champ. I've had it for about 7 years or so.

The new modem is a USR 56K USB.

I had bought the new one for the faster upload speeds for updating
my websites.

On both modems, they typically want to connect at 49.2, sometimes
higher. But I was getting dropped about 1/3rd of the time. This
happened on the old machine as well.

The old modem has the commands to set max and min connect speeds.
Right now I have it limited to 45.2 and I don't get dropped as
often, if at all. It does retrain once in a while. I can tell when
RD/SD are low when there should be stuff moving. Only takes a few
seconds to retrain. I can live with that as long as it's not actually
dropping the connection.

The new modem does not have those commands so therefore it always
connects at a high speed, and eventually I'd lose it.

As for the DSL, when I tried to get it but couldn't get sync, they
came out and checked the line. Turned out I am something like 24,000
feet from the switch. I was told it typically tops out at 17-18K feet.
They couldn't but barely get a signal at the J-box down the road
which was supposed to be at about 21K feet. I was told they are
working on a new system that can go further, but no telling when
it would be available.

Shit, I just wish I could have a fiber optic right to the CPU. :)

Brian

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