Hi Mark,

On Sun 2038-Mar-14 03:14, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Richard Webb:

i'm sooooo sorry about that... i have GOT to figure out why the
damned DSL modem looses sync at times when analogue calls come in...

<snip>

Am I maybe the cause of his woes when I make a mail run at
you?

ummm... errr... ummm... yyyyeeeeeaaaahhhh... kinda... either you or
someone else calling that line on the analogue side :lol:

<bummer> SOrry 'bout that Ole!!! I"m betting at least one
of your bummers was caused by myself anyway, as if I'm doing a lot of conversation via fidonet and one of my internet
email presences I"m hitting his system quite a bit.

When a friend of mine first got DSL it took the at&T techs
three months to figure out why he sounded like he was
talking through a toilet paper tube in a echo chamber on the analog side. IT got to where I wouldn't talk to him on the
phone, even if radio conditions were fair to poor. ONly
trouble is, he's a stroke victim, and sending the code's
difficult for him, but still I"d have him get out the
straight key to tell me something important, until they
fixed it finally.

sometimes it does it... sometimes it doesn't... i can always tell
when it does 'cause my IRC client drops and tells me, vocally,
"connection dropped" and then when the connection comes back up and
the firewall cycles to re-establish the PPPoE link, it tells me "establishing connection" and then "joining channel" for each of the channels i'm connected to... one or two of the other machines sing
out at me as well :lol:... all of this done in a sexy female voice,
of course :P ;)

OH yah. An ex girlfriend from up in Iowa, and a very good
friend since childhood was always my go-to gal for voice
overs where the client wanted a very sexy voice. I think we voiced a few computer msgs for clients with her voice, that
come hither whispery sexy contralto. OH yah!!!



Regards,
Richard
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HI Ole,

On Mon 2038-Mar-15 03:47, Ole Juul (1:3634/12) wrote to Richard Webb:

All's good, I'll get it figured out. :)

<bummer> SOrry 'bout that Ole!!! I"m betting at least one
of your bummers was caused by myself anyway, as if I'm

Thanks for the concern. :) :) :)

YEp, that package arrived safely, I can confirm. FInally
got to te post office yesterday on my way to a meeting. Was running short on gas money and knew I had to make the
meeting, so didn't go by my P.O. box for a few days. IT's
about 15 miles from here.

Got some work to do before we're ready to set up some
networking here, and complicated it with more work next few
days. Got a radio demonstration to do in a couple of weeks, so setting up emergency comms post in rear compartment of
audio truck to do the dog and pony show .
Appreciate it a bunch.


Regards,
Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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Hi Mark,

i'm sooooo sorry about that... i have GOT to figure out why
the damned DSL modem looses sync at times when analogue

Awww, well your concern is indeed comforting. :) However
my problems (emotional or otherwise) are my own. I really
do think that there is a network problem with telnet in
my area of the woods. It does not appear to be on my
computer, but rather somewhere else in the network. I get
extremely long lapses easily 5 seconds, right in the middle
of a word. This is on most boards, and it's variable.
I've fiddled with my router, talked with my ISP, and tried
various software and network cards. I think it is my ISP's
provider that is flaky. Anyway, having a difficult time
typing makes it tiresome when it shouldn't be. :)

calls come in... it has been bugging me for a while, too...
i've not yet found out anything that is certain but i
suspect that i may have the TIP and RING wires backwards...
i just have to locate my punchdown tool and pull them off
the Type 66 block and repunch them...

Whatever happened to pushing the wires down with a screwdriver
blade? Hehe, someone gave me a worn punchdown tool some years
ago, but I never really had much use for it. However, I did
discover that the screwdriver worked better than a worn tool.

again, my apologies for the problems...

Well, I'm not easily discouraged - just easily depressed. :)

you may find it faster to write your messages offline and
then do an ascii upload of them if you are going to be
reading and writing live online... most folk use a terminal
with built in file xfer capabilities and use the offline
mail door in the messages area to upload and download their
messages... it is a lot better and the carrier drops aren't
quite so annoying...

I was just data mining my old hard drives and came acrosss
a couple of off line readers that might be suitable. Can
I up/down with FTP? That would work the best for me. I know
_some_ boards can do that. I see that the RFC mentions file
transfer capability, but from some serious searching of the
net, it looks like that has not been implemented in any
of the clients which I can run here - even *nix. I think
that is a MS-Windows thing. Anyway, I really like the
telnet FTP combination and that seems to be what is common
for most admin.

Cheers,
Ole


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Hi Richard,

All's good, I'll get it figured out. :)

<bummer> SOrry 'bout that Ole!!! I"m betting at least one
of your bummers was caused by myself anyway, as if I'm

Thanks for the concern. :) :) :)

Cheers,
Ole


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Quoting Ole Juul to Richard Webb on 03-12-10 18:12 <=-

I'm afraid to write too much here since it will
probably be wasted (I am really depressed) but
suffice to say that I got your address and will
send you the card and some software soon.
I wish I could write longer messages and talk
about stuff sometimes. After all that was the
reason I got interested in BBSing in the first
place.

Longer messages, unlimited time to think and write... that's what the
offline messaging systems are all about. :) BlueWave has been a
life-saver for me, for many years, since about the time I first really
got active in BBS messaging... say, the 1990's or so... :)

ttyl neb

... WindowError:00F Unexplained error. Please tell us how it happened.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
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Hi Nancy,

I've been unsettled in deciding what boards to use,
and use for what. Now that I've been here a while
it is clearer to me what boards offer what and I can
make up my mind and possibly make use of an off-line
reader.

Longer messages, unlimited time to think and write...
that's what the
offline messaging systems are all about. :) BlueWave has
been a
life-saver for me, for many years, since about the time I
first really
got active in BBS messaging... say, the 1990's or so... :)

I had hoped to get more stability in my connections than
what I've seen. I've spent most of today debugging and
testing the whole chain through my inner network, up to
the radio on the roof, and on to the tower and beyond.
Actually at this moment, it looks like everything is just
great! As you see I'm on Waldo's. There are still the
odd blank spots though, but that looks like it is from
the upstream provider.

I set up my computer so I can automatically change between
three different telnet clients and made adjustments to
my network parameters, particularly in my router. After that
bout, I went looking for an off-line reader. I found two
in my archives and one looks particularly nice. Now I just
have to figure out how to use it. <g> I think FTP is probably
the easiest way up and down.

Cheers,
Ole

PS: I would like to change the title of this post to
"Off-Line Readers", but there doesn't seem to be any
way from here.


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Hi Richard,

So, after I checked out the handful of PCI NICs that
I had laying about, and knowing every box in the house
already has one or even two in some cases, I realized
that I can easily spare one. I'll mail you one if and
when you need it. The mail is cheap to US for such
a light item so no worries.

PS: I tried to post local netmail on Waldos, but it
went down, (no ping) so I thought I'd do it here
since I've also forgotten your local Fido address.
Anyway, Waldos will probably be back by the time
I get up, (around 1pm here) and check it. :)

Cheers,
Ole

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HI Ole,

On Fri 2038-Mar-12 02:28, Ole Juul (1:229/426) wrote to Richard Webb:

So, after I checked out the handful of PCI NICs that
I had laying about, and knowing every box in the house
already has one or even two in some cases, I realized
that I can easily spare one. I'll mail you one if and
when you need it. The mail is cheap to US for such
a light item so no worries.

That's much appreciated! Are you getting email from me at
my richard.webb@ ... account on coalmont alright? IF so
I"ll shoot you a P.O. box ad there.

PS: I tried to post local netmail on Waldos, but it
went down, (no ping) so I thought I'd do it here
since I've also forgotten your local Fido address.
Anyway, Waldos will probably be back by the time
I get up, (around 1pm here) and check it. :)

rOger that. IN fact, I"ll shoot you that there as well.

Regards,
Richard
... IF laughter is the best medicine let's take a double dose!
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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Hi Richard,

I just spent half an hour writing you a note on
the local netmail here. Unfortunately it dumped
me. It is soooo depressing. :( Anyway, I'll
just do a quick note here instead.

That's much appreciated! Are you getting email from me at
my richard.webb@ ... account on coalmont alright? IF so
I"ll shoot you a P.O. box ad there.

Yep that works just fine. I got the one about
how Fido mail moves. Thanks for sending that!

I'm afraid to write too much here since it will
probably be wasted (I am really depressed) but
suffice to say that I got your address and will
send you the card and some software soon.
I wish I could write longer messages and talk
about stuff sometimes. After all that was the
reason I got interested in BBSing in the first
place.


Cheers,
Ole


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HI Ole,

On Fri 2038-Mar-12 18:12, Ole Juul (1:3634/12) wrote to Richard Webb:

Yep that works just fine. I got the one about
how Fido mail moves. Thanks for sending that!

NO prob, glad the explanation was helpful.

I'm afraid to write too much here since it will
probably be wasted (I am really depressed) but
suffice to say that I got your address and will
send you the card and some software soon.

Thanks a bunch. That's one of the bummers about doing a lot of replying on line, especially with internet connections.
I tended to use bbs software's line editors more than the
ansi editors cause I wasn't running ansi.sys back in the
days when everybody did dial-up bbses only, but I did the
fido thing as a point then node, and had an offline reader.
I became an early convert.

Thanks a bunch for that, it'll help me in my quest to get
some machines networked up. Maybe with it and my linux box
I can actually do some conversions and get things cooking.

Regards,
Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS (1:116/901)

I just spent half an hour writing you a note on
the local netmail here. Unfortunately it dumped
me. It is soooo depressing. :(

:? :? :( :(

i'm sooooo sorry about that... i have GOT to figure out why the damned DSL modem looses sync at times when analogue calls come in... it has been bugging me for a while, too... i've not yet found out anything that is certain but i suspect that i may have the TIP and RING wires backwards... i just have to locate my punchdown tool and pull them off the Type 66 block and repunch them...

again, my apologies for the problems...

you may find it faster to write your messages offline and then do an ascii upload of them if you are going to be reading and writing live online... most folk use a terminal with built in file xfer capabilities and use the offline mail door in the messages area to upload and download their messages... it is a
lot better and the carrier drops aren't quite so annoying...

)\/(ark


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HI Mark,

On Sat 2038-Mar-13 21:12, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Ole Juul:

I just spent half an hour writing you a note on
the local netmail here. Unfortunately it dumped
me. It is soooo depressing. :(

:? :? :( :(

i'm sooooo sorry about that... i have GOT to figure out why the
damned DSL modem looses sync at times when analogue calls come in...
it has been bugging me for a while, too... i've not yet found out
anything that is certain but i suspect that i may have the TIP and
RING wires backwards... i just have to locate my punchdown tool and
pull them off the Type 66 block and repunch them...

Am I maybe the cause of his woes when I make a mail run at
you? Sorry MR. Moderator, not uite topical, except trying
to help out a regular here <g>.



Regards,
Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS (1:116/901)

i'm sooooo sorry about that... i have GOT to figure out why the
damned DSL modem looses sync at times when analogue calls come in...
it has been bugging me for a while, too... i've not yet found out
anything that is certain but i suspect that i may have the TIP and
RING wires backwards... i just have to locate my punchdown tool and
pull them off the Type 66 block and repunch them...

Am I maybe the cause of his woes when I make a mail run at
you?

ummm... errr... ummm... yyyyeeeeeaaaahhhh... kinda... either you or someone else calling that line on the analogue side :lol:

sometimes it does it... sometimes it doesn't... i can always tell when it does 'cause my IRC client drops and tells me, vocally, "connection dropped" and then
when the connection comes back up and the firewall cycles to re-establish the PPPoE link, it tells me "establishing connection" and then "joining channel" for each of the channels i'm connected to... one or two of the other machines sing out at me as well :lol:... all of this done in a sexy female voice, of course :P ;)

but really, though... i do need to figure out why it does that and stop it... it might be a bad DSL filter or it could be the Tip and Ring are flipped... i dunno yet and want to find out more positive answers before i go tearing stuff up trying to fix it...

)\/(ark


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