Re: (ASCEND) 56K Modem Throughput Degradation

[Kevin Smith <kevin@ascend.com>]

At 01:07 PM 5/28/97 -0400, Robert A. Pickering Jr. wrote:
>Ascend Users,
>
>We are seeing pretty good connect rates with various K56Flex modems to 
>our new 56K cards in a 4004.  We're even seeing good throughput rates,
>initially.
>
>What happens is that we'll get connected at say 45-51Kbps and we'll start
>a download.  The download progresses nicely for a while at around 5K/s. 
>However, the download throughput will begin to degrade slowly.  About 
>half way through or more with the download the speed is around 2.2K/s and
>often the connection will drop.
>
>I'm seeing this myself, as well as several other users all using different
>56K modems (Hayes, Zoom, Diamond, Motorolla, etc).  We're all seeing the
>same problems.

So that we can start the ball rolling with a troubleshooting process, can you
provide details of the modem revision numbers and firmware versions ?

Also which version are you running on the MAX4004 ? Which cards ?



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References:

• Re: (ASCEND) Callback doesn't work if too quick (5.0A)
• From: Ray Davis <ray@carpe.net>
• (ASCEND) 56K Modem Throughput Degradation
• From: "Robert A. Pickering Jr." <pickerin@fuse.net>

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