garof@sixcom.sixcom.it (Joe Giampapa) (09/28/90)
If there is an Internet newsgroup, my apologies for this mistake. Please let me know of it, and cross-post this message. Thanks. =============================================================================== I am desperately trying to access my US accounts in the Boston area, from Milano. My setup is a bit demented: 1. I have a 19200bps Telebit modem. 2. The only close modem I know of is at CILEA (in Milano), which only operates at a noisy 1200bps (V21 standard). 3. From there, I can do an X.25 connection to a terminal server at CINECA in Bologna. From there I can access Internet (the command is "TCP"). 4. I can type the TCP/IP numbers or the logical names of my destinations, and they will be resolved by the nameserver [DECTCP.???.it], at CINECA. 5. I can make the connection, login, and wait. Usually after 3 minutes, I can no longer receive any output from my destination computer. Possibilities: a) either too much noise and error correcting; or b) connection drops; or c) the bloody 1200 local modem connection generates too much noise. My net result is that I am able to get work done in sporadic spurts of less than 5minutes, and <10 commands. HELP! 1) Does anyone know of a terminal concentrator which connects to an X.25 network or (better) Internet router, which has a modem operating at V22 or V22 bis? The call can be anywhere (preferably, and probably in the north) in Italy. 2) The Italian Internet router is frequently down (90% of the time). I am looking for alternate Internet router connections which bypass the CINECA - CNR Internet network segments (which means: all routes other than in Italy). I have had a successful login by way of Finland, but only by borrowing somebody's Finnish account. X.25 connections to routers are preferred and probably most practical, in the absence of knowing any Internet router to Internet router connections. Any help to any of the above will be a tremendous help. Thank you. -Joe Giampapa