Rob, Please read Jacques PostInstall Howto at http://linmodems.technion.ac.il One guess is that the MTU maximum transfer unit) should be decreased. Read the appropriate section in: $ man pppd and its configuation file /etc/ppp/options The more general issue is that the are precompiled sections of the code, which have not been updated since ESS dropped its support of Linux, and which we have no choice but to keep on using. MarvS On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Rob <robuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been having this strange problem with my dial-up modem, which is > an ESS if anyone remembers ;-). It keeps going "dead", to explain it a > bit more, when I download something, it doesn't matter if it's a > webpage, or a file, or if I use wget, Firefox, or a GUI downloader, > the download keeps stopping. My modem stops working. > > I don't disconnect, but my modem becomes completely inactive. Network > monitors show the download and upload rates drop to 0.00 . After maybe > 10-30 seconds, the modem comes alive like nothing happened and > continues it's download, if the server I'm connected to hasn't kicked > me off (and to my frustration, they often do, making file downloads > and loading websites nearly impossible sometimes) > > I never had these problems on Windows, so it must be a linux related > thing, but I have no idea if it's fixable, I sure have no idea what to > do with it other than live with it. On WinXP my downloads were slow > but steady. On Ubuntu it's a nightmare. I was downloading an 8mb file, > and I had to restart it and resume at least half a dozen times. Three > of those times were in the last 20kb of the file. I sure don't > understand it. > > Has anyone else experienced this with their modems? >
