[arachne] problem connecting with fast P

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Ken,

I have Arachne (1.71UE1) on two computers; one a 75MHz with a 33.6 real 
internal modem and the other a 200 MHz with a 28.8 real external modem.  I 
usually have no problem connecting with either one.  On very infrequent 
occasions, it will require a redial, but it is not that frequent that I 
can't chalk it up the server being unavailable.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

Ken Martwick wrote:

. > I recently obtained a newer "old PC", a 450MHz Pentium II.  Since then
. > I have had no success connecting to  the internet with Arachne or any
. > other DOS program.  The problem has been further confused by the collapse
. > of my former ISP and my switch to a new one.  During the last gasps of my
. > former ISP, I had to use a "slowdown" program to let me run BananaCom and
. > log into my dial-up shell account; no such tactic has yet succeeded with
. > Arachne or any other DOS program.  My wife's 100 MhH Pentium is better
. > with Arachne, but a 50 MHz 486 has turned out to work fine.  It might be
. > important that the modem in the 486 is a US Robotics 14.4k and the ones
. > in the Pentiums are no-name modems, but they are not PnP or "win" modems.
. > All three PC's handle the internet well under Linux, though the Pentium II
. > often takes two or three tries to connect.  Has anyone seen (and solved)
. > a problem like this?

. > Ken Martwick

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