Modem tuning

Extracted from debian-list
Tip provided by Michele Bini
> > another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only
> > get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is
> > it just an improper init string or etc?
>
>  From my (short) experience many people (including me)
> experiencing slower connection speed under Linux were giving
> pppd the wrong connection speed.
>
> pppd only accepts a limited set of speeds (19200 38400 ... 115200),
> [...]                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Please disseminate this info.
>
> If this is not your case try to tune your packet size:
> choose a small one if your phone connection is noisy,
> also consider enabling or disabling compression.
>

Also please remember to edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial
file to have spd_vhi (or spd_hi) in the STD_FLAGS:

	STD_FLAGS="session_lockout spd_vhi"

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Tip recorded : 03-11-1998 10:00:00
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