To Do

This appendix contains comments on any thing that I haven't worked out how to deal with yet. Comments are welcome.

Windows 95 Socket Connections Timing Out

This is the major thing that I have yet to figure out. It takes approximately 30 seconds for the dial-out to complete. During this time, it appears that Windows 95 decides that the connection has failed and reports a time-out. Afterwards, of course, everything is fine.

The win95netbug FAQ suggests that there are registry parameters which can be used to control the behaviour of Win95's socket parameters.[24] I guess that I just haven't found the right combination yet.

Actually, this has stopped happening. My PC had a disk crash and reinstallation made the problem go away. Other opinion on this matter is that it is still a problem, however.

Working Out What the Numbers Mean

The IP-Filter monitoring and testing programs produce all kinds of interesting numbers. I wonder what they mean?

Speeds Greater Than 33.6k

I am now using a sparc Ultra-1, which should handle 56k port speeds without difficulty. However, any attempt to talk to the modem at speeds above 38.4k causes the modem to not recognise commands.

Suspicion points towards the Ultra-1 UARTs not really being able to handle high speeds.