[ale] Problems with my BellSouth connection

[Clay Lawrence]

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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