On Sunday 14 October 2001 06:13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my > > meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process > > ppp traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. > > You have a proper modem, or one of those 'software modems' aka > win/linmodem POS?
Quite a proper modem that can fax, twinkle and purr in the dark and has a little tail you can plug to the serial port of your desktop computer. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."