[ale] Problems with my BellSouth connection

[Robert Heaven]

I've been on BellSouth.Not for a couple of years. If you really want to
understand why their network has problems just do a traceroute to anywhere.
(even their DNS server is 5 or 6 hops away) Unlike most data networks, the
BellSouth network was designed by telco engineers where they're accustomed
to using about a 500 to 1 compression ratio of user access resources.
(i.e., multiplexing users on their RAS systems)

RH

At 06:38 AM 5/10/99 -0400, Clay Lawrence wrote:
>Generally I don't have much trouble with Bellsouth and I've always used
>PAP. Lately though there've been a few times where my pppd timed out
>waiting on a response from their's. It always goes thru by the second
>dial-in though. I think someone needs to tune their system.
>
>Clay
>Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Ale,
>>   Has anyone else had problems connecting to BellSouth.net over the past
>> two weekends ?  My problems seem to disappear during the week.  I'm
>> running RH 5.2 and I'm using ppp via control-panel to dial in.  It's
>> worked for quite a while now.  I used to have a chap script to connect,
>> but it 'mysteriously' broke a while back.  Talked with a BellSouth rep via
>> ALE and he gave me some pointers.  They made some changes, but said it
>> should not affect me.  I fixed the problem by enabling PAP, which the
>> BellSouth rep said wasn't necessary, but it was the only way I could get
>> the connection to work.
>> 
>>   I'm running into the same problem, but it only seems to happen on the
>> weekends.  The BellSouth Helpdesk seems to think it's either a 'dirty'
>> line or a switch having problems.  I dialed into my GSU account using 95B
>> :-( and it connected immediatedly, whereas the BS connection under 95 took
>> over 2 minutes to connect.  Inquiring minds want to know..
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
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