Re: (ASCEND) mail attachment problem

["Jerry O'Brien" <jobrien@cuttingedge.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Mulrine <skm@foremost.co.uk>
To: <jobrien@cuttingedge.net>
Cc: <ascend-users@bungi.com>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) mail attachment problem


> Jerry O'Brien <jobrien@cuttingedge.net> wrote:
> >From: Stephen Mulrine <skm@foremost.co.uk>
> >>I saw something along these lines where a user occasionally couldn't
> >>connect to the SMTP server, using Windows 95 with some poxy internal
> >>modem.  When I set up a continuous ping to them I noticed packets were
> >>getting dropped quite regularly.  After attempting to mess around with
> >>modem settings it was finally solved (or at least worked around) by
> >>lowering the FIFO buffer sizes in the modem control panel.
> >That's interesting, I almost tried it, but these same users are able to
send
> >the same attachments through  a different Max 4K. I can't see any
relevant
> >difference in the configuration between the two. The problem arose about
the
> >time I set up my own DNS, but then the other Max uses that too.
>
> Bizarre.  I take it both units have the same OS version and the same type
> of digital modem card installed?  If one set of modems had different
> firmware, they could conceivably be negotiating with the users' modems in
> such a way that the packet loss problem - if indeed there is one -
wouldn't
> occur.
>
> Stephen
>
>

Yes, hardware and firmware are identical.  (6.1.7 & 3x56K modems)

Jerry


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