Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: jeffa@sybase.com, mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Annex router Message-ID: <199504212339.QAA19628@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <199504211541.JAA12577@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 21, 95 09:41:13 am
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> > > The problem I have is the carrier keeps dropping once per day, and if lucky > > > it will stay up to 2 days, and that's about it. My questions are : > > > > Well, as much as I'd love to say you can do *MUCH* better, in the states > > I find that two days would be very good indeed. > I guess my provider is better than average then. After the initial > first 2 weeks of hassles getting my second line working as a full-time > SLIP/PPP link, I've had uptimes of 2 weeks w/out a line drop. Same here. Sometimes I only get 1-3 days - sometimes it'll drop three or four times in a half hour. Usually, I'll get a week or so in between drops. > Granted, my line was guaranteed to be wired (most of the newer lines are > radio), and I live in a small-ish town (< 50K folks). I live in an older neighborhood in a medium-sized (.5 million) city. We've got pretty old copper - but it seems to work well. ...but we're straying from the topic of FreeBSD, aren't we? :)
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