From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 16:50:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA25127 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:50:10 -0700 Received: from dtr.com (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA25121 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:50:06 -0700 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA19628; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:39:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199504212339.QAA19628@dtr.com> Subject: Re: Annex router To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jeffa@sybase.com, mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504211541.JAA12577@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 21, 95 09:41:13 am Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 975 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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? :)