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Re: [LUG] Tiscali dial-up



For any of you thinking this might be a good idea, think again. I had a lovely
service from Lineone. Could stay online all night without disconnection, then
all of a sudden I couldn't connect, kept getting disconnected after 30 minutes,
did not connect properly etc. (something wrong with the server's chap
authentication - it would never get back to you with your IP)
Now that Lineone have finished the "upgrades" they promised as they became
Tiscali, I have only intermittent problems logging in, but still it disconnects
every 180 minutes, so d/ling large files requires a ftp server that supports
resuming.
Sorry for the rant, but my Desktop PC's PSU just blew up, the arms fell off my
chair, I have a cold and I'm feeling a little peeved off at the moment.
Looks like Sun's Forte for Java does not like to be run on a 300MHz laptop with
only 64MB of RAM either. Does EMACS have an auto-complete wizgig like the
graphical IDEs I wonder?

Cheers all,
JB.
Lo and Behold! Disconnected the second that I pressed "Send"!  Now reconnecting
it says "LCP terminated by peer" - This is not turning into a good week.

Neil Williams wrote:

For those of you who may want to use Tiscali, or who are already using
Tiscali via Windows, here's the config for the new dial-up number the Tiscali
50 etc services. (And in case I trash my own scripts so that I can find the
settings again!)

#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript' -detach \
defaultroute crtscts noipdefault user <username> \
asyncmap 0 mtu 552 mru 552 /dev/ttyS0 115200 modem \
idle 300 demand

chatscript:
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ''
ATZ OK
ATM0L0 OK
"ATDT 147008089933030"
TIMEOUT 120
CONNECT ''
'' <username>
'' <password>

Omit "idle 300 demand" if you don't want dial-on demand (idle 300 = 5 mins
without activity before line is dropped.)

The settings may work with other ISP's - part of the code comes from a Force9
HowTo page:
http://www.hades.force9.co.uk/linux/linux_force9.htm

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