• Weird cable modem issue

    From Dreamer@VERT to All on Fri Dec 30 21:31:40 2011
    OK, I just had something funky crazy happen with my cable modem. Honestly, this makes absolutely no sense to me, but for some reason when I was trying to upload a REP packet over Telnet using SyncTerm, I lost some portion of my connection.

    I've no idea how or why this was happening. I kept an eye on my lights during this, and seen the usual banging on the receive light, but never saw any outgoing packets. My best guess is something was going on with my tcp/ip stack; perhaps SyncTerm hung it up? I'm running WinXP. Pinging IP addresses, nothing was getting out (8.8.8.8, nor even my modem's private address; didn't think of trying a loopback).

    I repeated it two more times, once with the original 1k zmodem, and again with 8k zmodem. The reply packet's size is 1133 bytes.

    Anyone else ever run into a problem like that? I'm presently running SyncTerm 0.8.

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  • From Bbsing.Bbs@VERT/EWBBS to Dreamer on Sun Jan 1 18:39:00 2012
    Hi Dreamer , hope you are having a nice day

    30-Dec-11 21:31:00, Dreamer wrote to All
    Subject: Weird cable modem issue

    OK, I just had something funky crazy happen with my cable modem. Honestly,
    this makes absolutely no sense to me, but for some reason when I was trying to
    upload a REP packet over Telnet using SyncTerm, I lost some portion of my connection.

    I've no idea how or why this was happening. I kept an eye on my lights during
    this, and seen the usual banging on the receive light, but never saw any outgoing packets. My best guess is something was going on with my tcp/ip stack; perhaps SyncTerm hung it up? I'm running WinXP. Pinging IP addresses,
    nothing was getting out (8.8.8.8, nor even my modem's private address; didn't
    think of trying a loopback).

    I repeated it two more times, once with the original 1k zmodem, and again with
    8k zmodem. The reply packet's size is 1133 bytes.

    Anyone else ever run into a problem like that? I'm presently running SyncTerm
    0.8.

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    Not with syncterm.

    Yours sincerely, Bbsing.bbs <=-

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to Bbsing.Bbs on Mon Jan 2 12:56:11 2012
    Re: Weird cable modem issue
    By: Bbsing.Bbs to Dreamer on Sun Jan 01 2012 06:39 pm

    Hi Dreamer , hope you are having a nice day

    30-Dec-11 21:31:00, Dreamer wrote to All
    Subject: Weird cable modem issue

    OK, I just had something funky crazy happen with my cable modem. Honestly,
    this makes absolutely no sense to me, but for some reason when I was trying to
    upload a REP packet over Telnet using SyncTerm, I lost some portion of m connection.

    I've no idea how or why this was happening. I kept an eye on my lights during
    this, and seen the usual banging on the receive light, but never saw any outgoing packets. My best guess is something was going on with my tcp/i stack; perhaps SyncTerm hung it up? I'm running WinXP. Pinging IP addresses,
    nothing was getting out (8.8.8.8, nor even my modem's private address; didn't
    think of trying a loopback).

    I repeated it two more times, once with the original 1k zmodem, and agai with
    8k zmodem. The reply packet's size is 1133 bytes.

    Anyone else ever run into a problem like that? I'm presently running SyncTerm
    0.8.

    -!-
    ■ Synchronet ■ Vertrauen ■ Home of Synchronet ■ telnet://vert.synchro.n


    Not with syncterm.

    Yours sincerely, Bbsing.bbs <=-

    I remember Zedzap being 8k on Terminate. I used that because it was more reliable protocol handling when reading and writing blocks of data.

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