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gerund
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response 125 of 263:
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Jan 24 04:14 UTC 1998 |
Never have gotten text loss since being in Spokane.
Lag has been noticably better, particularly today.
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arthurp
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response 126 of 263:
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Jan 24 04:54 UTC 1998 |
Procomm 2.0 is a Win3.1 program. I wonder how well it behaves in
relation to Win95's better comm drivers.
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senna
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response 127 of 263:
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Jan 24 07:03 UTC 1998 |
For some reason, my session locked up on me earlier. It seemed lag related.
I was still getting echos of what I typed, but nothing provided by grex.
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n8nxf
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response 128 of 263:
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Jan 24 11:59 UTC 1998 |
The dial-in modems seem to be giving me a lot fewer errors :-)
r.e. Grex's electric bill: I could heat my house with noting but
Grex running in the basement. Summers are more of a problem.
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scott
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response 129 of 263:
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Jan 24 14:30 UTC 1998 |
OK, at this point I'll need to work with somebody having the text loss problem
to pin down exactly what is happening. Any volunteers? I'd probably show
up with an RS232 protocol analyser...
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scott
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response 130 of 263:
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Jan 25 01:49 UTC 1998 |
On the modem lag front, I may have found a relevant modem setting. Right now
all the newer modems have a "disable V.22 auto retrain" setting, which I think
means that in cases where the line quality had dropped, the modem is not
allowed to change to a slower speed to compensate. I'm going to change that
to "enable" Sunday morning.
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davel
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response 131 of 263:
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Jan 25 02:08 UTC 1998 |
Something was ringing open just now when I logged in. After a few rings the
trunk hunt took me somewhere that answered.
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cmcgee
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response 132 of 263:
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Jan 25 17:03 UTC 1998 |
I never had text loss. I have had severe problems with lag, and with the text
on my screen showing up in funny configurations. But today the Grex beast
is wizzing along.
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valerie
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response 133 of 263:
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Jan 25 17:49 UTC 1998 |
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senna
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response 134 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:03 UTC 1998 |
That's odd. My hyperterminal program doesn't have that problem. If I did,
I'd use this process:
Click the properties button on the hyperterminal toolbar, hit the Configure
button on the window that pops up, go to Connection, and change the
appropriate number in the Call Preferences box. It will say something to the
effect of "Cancell the call if not connected within [box] seconds." Mine is
set to 60. It's available from my Hyperterminal.
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valerie
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response 135 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:10 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 136 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:14 UTC 1998 |
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mcnally
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response 137 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:16 UTC 1998 |
The toolbar can probably be switched off..
If you click "cancel" when the dial dialogue comes up in Hyperterminal
you can just type commands to the modem instead of having Hyperterminal
mess them up for you, though by that time it has probably put your modem
into a different response mode where you'll get numeric status responses
from the modem instead of things like "NOT CONNECTED" and "OK" -- still
an ATDT7613000 should work there..
I'm surprised and appalled by the number of people who seem to be using
Hyperterminal. I know it's free with Win 95 or NT but egad is it a crappy
term program..
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valerie
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response 138 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:34 UTC 1998 |
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scg
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response 139 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:34 UTC 1998 |
I've never had hyperterminal put my modem into a strange mode by hitting
escape. When I'm using it, I generally use it by sending at commands to the
modem.
Hyperterminal doesn't let the screen be resized. Other than that, I haven't
had a problem with it. I used to think it couldn't be told to send a break,
but then I discovered it takes that from the computer's break key, which makes
sense. Am I missing some huge problem, or are you just complaining about not
being able to resize the screen?
That said, I don't use it much. A dial-up terminal is usually my last resort
when trying to fix something that gets into a state where I can't telnet in,
so other than that I just use it as a console for various networking equipment
occasionally.
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scg
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response 140 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:37 UTC 1998 |
Valerie slipped in. It doesn't make sense that system load on Grex would have
anything to do with the lag on the modems problem, since what the terminal
server does is to establish a telnet seession to Grex, and that problem isn't
happening when telnetting from other places.
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valerie
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response 141 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:37 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 142 of 263:
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Jan 25 18:38 UTC 1998 |
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arthurp
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response 143 of 263:
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Jan 25 20:21 UTC 1998 |
Hyperterms emulation sucks. And it doesn't even do ANSI. Yuck.
Here's an odd suggestion. Set the timeout to 45 seconds. Maybe 60 is
longer than that modem can do, so it defaults, or wraps.
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kaplan
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response 144 of 263:
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Jan 26 02:31 UTC 1998 |
I'm using HyperTerminal Private Edition 3.0 which is much better than the
Hyperterminal that came with Win95 because it can do telnet as well. I hope
I never have to use the telnet client that came with Win95 again.
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tpryan
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response 145 of 263:
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Jan 26 03:47 UTC 1998 |
I am currently on ttyqe. When I dialed in, I got open ringing,
but I was distracted and did not give up thinking Grex was down, and
after 8-9 rings, got a modem connection. Is this the Centrex working
right to pass onto next line when a noanswer occurs? Is there a bad
line?
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senna
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response 146 of 263:
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Jan 26 06:10 UTC 1998 |
My hyperterminal was set to ANSI until last week. The screen on hyperterminal
can't be resized, but if you can deal with some blank space on the right, you
can expand it to full screen and have the benifit of a nice 500 line
backscroll buffer, some of which shows up onscreen.
In the past few days, I've been asked specifically by no less than two people
how one could establish an IRC channel and compile an IRC bot on grex. I
managed to respond negatively to one of them, but I'm not sure he/she got the
mesage. Might it help to put something back in MOTD about it?
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valerie
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response 147 of 263:
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Jan 26 13:19 UTC 1998 |
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omni
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response 148 of 263:
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Jan 26 17:34 UTC 1998 |
What is eggdrop?
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carson
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response 149 of 263:
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Jan 26 18:10 UTC 1998 |
(it's a type of soup where the raw egg is dropped into and cooked by
a boiling broth.)
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