Modem/ Internet, What is going on?
I went from mandrake 9.1 to 10 official and now instead of seconds it takes 3 minutes or more for a standard web page to come up. I have a dial up connection and made sure no other programs were running. I am very much a noob and you will have to take me step by step from the very beginning. I dont know how to use the command line at all. Oh yeah, I picked up my phone to listen to see if it was connected and noticed that the initial connection signal (noise for lack of a better term,,,noob remember) kept repeating itself at about a 10 second interval.
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Might be your internet provider. I had a sinilar problem with one provider, but other providers worked perfect.
(btw: try making the title a little more descriptive. It'll get you more specific attention :) ) |
Like I said I am a noob not sure how you want me to be more descriptive? All I can say is that my windows and 9.1 only took seconds to load a page with the same provider. And I dont know what the nomenclature is for the initial sound a modem makes when it is querrying the server for response upon initial contact
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by the sound, it seams that it doesnt know its connected and keeps sending the initial querry signal and im only receiving inbetween hence the long load times
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most likely you're using a winmodem and the drivers are corrupt. try reinstalling them.
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Now that I come to think of it. If you are using a Linmodem, I'm surprised it even works under MDK 10. From what I've read I thought there were only drivers available for kernel versions 2.4.* and none for 2.6.* What kernel version did you install? |
I loaded kernel 2.6 and have a hardware modem not a winmodem. The modem was recognized by pnp. Not sure I gave the correct info, I am not sure what a linmodem is.
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Linmodem= Winmodem that is supported by linux (driver is available)
Winmodem= software modem. uses cpu power to do certain tasks that 'real' modem would do by itself. On slower computers this can influence the connection speed significantly. |
well I have a hardware modem so thats not my problem
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What is the make and model of your modem?
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I think its something like a best data 56.
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Internal or external? I'm guessing internal. What's the label on the pci card say on it - in full?
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its an external and Im at work and cant get info off the modem
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This modem worked fine for 9.1 and one thing I didnt mention earlier is that when you go to net monitor the speed is fine. I still think the computer believes its not connected and continues its initial connection actions and is delaying the upload
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On your phone (that the modem is connected into), do you have call waiting or some kind of answering service? In the UK, the BT answering service sends a signal down the line (resulting in a broken tone) when you have a message waiting - as I remember to my cost, that plays havoc with dial in services.
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