newbie has problems w/ dialup

[Matt Graham]

> Mark Zyniecki wrote:
>> Well, Matt, I do live in BFE if that's what you call living half way
>> between Flagstaff and Williams.

That's pretty close to BFE, but at least you don't have to drive 150
miles to the closest Interstate highway.

>> The WinXP modem init string is: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1
>> In openSUSE11 the connection is made via KInternet.

That's what used to be called "kppp", right?  That's an OK frontend to
pppd.

>> The SUSE modem init string is: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0

Check the docs for what those things do, and see whether the settings
are more appropriate in the 'Doze string.

>> mtu 1000
>> mru 1000

This is pretty low.  1500 (or 1492) is usually the thing you want to use.

From: Patrick Jacques <patrick at kinetic-computing.net>
> Have you tried lowering the MTU to 576?

Probably won't help.  I tried this in 2000, there was no speed increase
at all, and it broke everything that used Path MTU Discovery.

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