lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski) (12/18/87)
For all those on the net who subscribe to uunet; has uunet been unreliable
lately?
I administer the news feed here at DuPont and when uunet became available I
immiediately signed up. The idea of having a 'highly reliable' connection
to a dedicated news/mail server appealed to me. And paying a $3.00 connect
charge over Tymnet seemed a helluva lot cheaper than making long-distance
phone calls to Arlington, VA (dgis, my old news feed). So what happened?
Over the period of the last several weeks I have noticed that when calling
the uunet machine in the 1-3AM time frame daily I have about a 15% chance of
getting a connect. What I usually have to do after that is spend about
20-30 minutes in the morning calling uunet with uucico in debug mode (so I
can see what's going on) to get a connect and get the news/mail. Then, of
course, uunet goes down at 10AM (presumably for backups) and rarely comes
back online before 1PM. I am writing this note just minutes after trying to
connect to uunet again and getting no answer from their modems (it's 2:30PM
EST). What gives?
The end result of all of this is I now pay $600.-$700./month for news when
my initial uunet bills were in the $150.-$300. range. I use tymnet after hours
and the 800 line during peak times. I'd just liek to get back to paying less
and getting the reliable connection I had when I first got on uunet. I even
bought a Traliblazer modem to further reduce my online time (and charges)
but after three weeks of begging for help to get it running, I'm giving up.
I have not been able to get a reliable connection to uunet with it and
several pleas for help to uunet!postmaster only got a set of instructions to
connect to uunet by mail.
In closing, I don't mean this to be an attack on the uunet machine and the
people who run it. Honest. I just want a reliable machine to call, that's
all. I know I could just go back to dialing another machine long-distance,
but that's not going to solve the problems. I also know that I can't be the
only machine in the world that's having trouble. I would like to hear from
others regarding their expirences with uunet.
Thanks,
--
Lawrence A. Dziegielewski | E.I. Dupont Co.
{uunet!dgis!psuvax1}!eplrx7!lad | Engineering Physics Lab
Cash-We-Serve 76127,104 | Wilmington, Delaware 19898
MABELL: (302) 695-1311 | Mail Stop: E357-318david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (12/21/87)
In article <561@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski) writes: > ... I even >bought a Traliblazer modem to further reduce my online time (and charges) >but after three weeks of begging for help to get it running, I'm giving up. >I have not been able to get a reliable connection to uunet with it and >several pleas for help to uunet!postmaster only got a set of instructions to >connect to uunet by mail. I don't know about the other problems you mentioned ... we seem to be getting through to uunet "often enough"... But the trailblazer problem is interesting. I had a pair of those guys here for testing (they've been returned and we've got 2 on order now) and didn't have a lot of trouble getting them hooked up and running. It *did* take about a weekend (or more) of work, reading the manuals, reading a couple of postings I'd saved from the net, and so forth. But I did eventually get the modems configured and running. And did manage to get connected through the 1-800 number. Oh, the thing which really helped a lot was a posting from Rick Adams giving a few different trailblazer configurations ... It was very instructive to read through all the settings everybody had and read the descriptions and compare everyone's settings... < Path: ukma!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eecae!nancy!umix!uunet!seismo!rick < >From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) < Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.config < Subject: Telebit Modem Hints (telebit is down) < Message-ID: <44175@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> < Date: 2 Nov 87 23:02:35 GMT < Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA < Lines: 120 < < The uucp site "telebit" is down with a dead hard disk. They hope to < be back up soon. < < Those of you who have received telebit modems without detailed instructions < on how to configure them for uucp may find the following information useful. < < Telebit will be publishing an "official" how to configure guide soon, but the < guide was on the hard disk that was trashed... < < The following information works for 4.3bsd, 4.2bsd and HoneyDanBer. I'm not < sure if the "old" System V.2 uucp supports chat scripts in L-devices. < < Basically, you use the stock Hayes dialer with a small change to the < chat script. This is presented as an "it works for me" help file as < opposed to anything formal. < < ---rick < < [most of this information comes from other people including < John Gilmore and Peter Honeyman] < < Devices and Systems are honey danber, L-devices is bsd. a Systems or < L.sys entry is `vanilla': < < host Any ACU speed phone etc. < < Devices: < < ACU tty11 - 1200 tb1200 < ACU tty11 - 2400 tb2400 < ACU tty11 - 9600 tbfast < ACU tty11 - 19200 tbfast < < Dialers: < < tb1200 =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pT OK ATS50=2DT\T CONNECT\s1200 < tb2400 =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pT OK ATS50=3DT\T CONNECT\s2400 < tbfast =W-, "" A\pA\pA\pT OK ATS50=255DT\T CONNECT\sFAST < < L-devices: < < ACU ttyd1 unused 1200 hayestone "" A\dA\dA\dT OK ATS50=2X0 OK < ACU ttyd1 unused 2400 hayestone "" A\dA\dA\dT OK ATS50=3X0 OK < ACU ttyd1 unused 9600 hayestone "" A\dA\dA\dT OK ATS50=255X0 OK < ACU ttyd1 unused 19200 hayestone "" A\dA\dA\dT OK ATS50=255X0 OK < < S registers: < < < [ uunet is the uunet machine, a Sequent balance 21k Dynix 2.1 ] < [ cfcl is Rich Morin's " machine, a Sun 2 running Sun 3.3 ] < [ Hoptoad is John Gilmore's machine, a Sun 3 running Sun 3.4 ] < [ Honey is Peter Honeymans machine, a 3BX (?) running system 5 with HDB ] < < factory Uunet cfcl Hoptoad Honey < < E1 E1 E1 E1 E1 Echo ON/OFF < F1 F1 F1 F1 F1 Echoplex ON/OFF < M1 M1 M1 M1 M2 Speaker ON/OFF < Q0 Q6 Q0 Q0 Q6 Quiet Enable < T T T T T Tone Dialing < V1 V1 V1 V1 V1 Verbose ON/OFF < X1 X1 X1 X0 X1 Result Code Basic/Extended < < S00 001 001 001 001 001 Answer on Ring Number < S01 000 000 000 000 000 Count of Rings < S02 043 043 043 043 043 Escape Character < S03 013 013 013 013 013 Carriage Return Character < S04 010 010 010 010 010 Line Feed Character < S05 008 008 008 008 008 Backspace Character < S06 002 002 002 002 002 Dial Tone Wait Time < S07 040 040 040 040 040 Wait for Carrier Time < S08 002 002 002 002 002 Pause Time for Comma < S09 006 006 006 006 006 Carrier Detect Time < < S10 007 007 007 007 007 Carrier Loss to Reconnect Time < S11 070 070 070 050 070 Touch Tone Timing < S12 050 050 050 050 050 Escape Sequence Guard Time < < S45 000 255 000 255 255 Remote Access Enable < S47 004 004 004 004 004 DSR Delay time < S48 000 000 000 000 000 Eight Bit Comparison < S49 000 000 000 000 000 Product Ident. String Redef. < < S50 000 000 000 000 000 Transmission Mode < S51 004 254 255 005 255 Interface Speed < S52 000 002 002 002 002 DTR Interpretation < S53 000 004 001 001 000 DCD & DSR Interpretation < S54 000 003 003 003 003 Break Signal Interpretation < S55 000 000 000 000 000 Escape Char./Seq. Interp. < S56 017 017 017 017 017 XON Character < S57 019 019 019 019 019 XOFF Character < S58 003 003 000 000 000 Flow Control used by DTE < S59 000 000 000 000 000 Prompt Character < < S60 000 000 000 000 000 Data Format < S61 045 045 010 000 255 Speaker Volume < S62 003 003 003 003 003 Break Length Time < S63 001 001 001 001 001 Attention Code ON/OFF < S64 000 000 000 000 000 Dial/Answer Sequence Abort < S65 000 000 000 000 000 XON/XOFF Failsafe < S66 000 000 000 000 000 Lock Interface Speed < S67 000 000 000 000 000 CTS Interpretation < S68 255 255 255 255 255 Flow Control used by DCE < < S90 000 000 000 000 000 V.22 Emulation Mode Enable < S91 000 000 000 000 000 Guard Tone Selection < S92 000 001 000 001 000 PEP tones after 2400/1200/300 < S95 000 000 000 000 000 MNP Operating Mode < < S100 000 000 000 000 000 Reverse Answer/Originate Mode < S101 000 000 000 000 000 Continuous Answer/Originate < S102 000 000 000 000 000 Auxiliary Telco Lead Setting < S104 000 000 000 000 000 Automatic dialing < < S110 255 001 255 255 255 Data Compression Enable < S111 255 030 030 030 030 Asynchronous Protocols Support < S112 001 001 001 001 001 Kermit Mark Character < < S121 000 000 000 000 000 Echo Suppressor Compensation < < < > < >In closing, I don't mean this to be an attack on the uunet machine and the < >people who run it. Honest. I just want a reliable machine to call, that's < >all. I know I could just go back to dialing another machine long-distance, < >but that's not going to solve the problems. I also know that I can't be the < >only machine in the world that's having trouble. I would like to hear from < >others regarding their expirences with uunet. < > < >Thanks, < > < > < >-- < > Lawrence A. Dziegielewski | E.I. Dupont Co. < > {uunet!dgis!psuvax1}!eplrx7!lad | Engineering Physics Lab < > Cash-We-Serve 76127,104 | Wilmington, Delaware 19898 < > MABELL: (302) 695-1311 | Mail Stop: E357-318 < < -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!