[LARTC] Modems: Cable or DSL digital blunders that lartc may help with.

[Jason Boxman]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 00:33, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I have a Cable 'modem' that has a problem that many of these devices is
> bound to have.  I was wondering what other lartc user thought about this
> and if DSL has simular problems.

Was there a question in here somewhere?

<snip>
> NO REALY MY CABLE MODEM DOSEN'T MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO, CALL FOR HELP,
> CONTROL THE FLOW(aka flow-control, supported by ethernet and rs-232).

Okay?

> TCP workes a bit better, but not if I use more then 7 uploads at once.
> With more then 7 the rate detection, read about this on your own time,
> generates more than 3(The TCP limit for 'giving up') * 7(The number of
> connectios) of these droped/missing packets that every connection gives
> up.

"read about this on your own time"

If you're not going to explain the situation who do you expect is going to 
research it on their time?

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Jason Boxman
Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator
Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida
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