Two computers, each with a (real) modem:
external USR 56K v.92 (bought today)
internal SharkMM Leopard 56K v.90
Running Mandrake + 2.4.16

I bought the USR because I thought the Leopard modem was bum, but...

Both modems work fine in Windows.
Both modems almost work fine in Linux...

# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kern...2.4.17.tar.bz2

1) Data transfers smoothly to ~80KB
2) Pause...
3) Data bursts
4) Data transfers smoothly to ~150KB
5) Connection (data) terminates.

Sure, I can do "wget -c", but that's not the point: the data connection never terminates in windows.

I disabled bsd_deflate/ppp_compress, didn't change the results. This is driving me and my dad
bonkers. Identical results on both machine/modems. What gives??? Help is greatly appreciated!!

Jason

In /etc/ppp/options:

mtu 1323
mru 1323

solves the problem. Using 1324+ induces
the problem. From my reading though, values
such as 552 or 576 are much better suited
for a 56K modem.

Other good options are:

crtscts
modem
debug