Has anyone had this message come up in Panther when disconnecting? "The modem has unexpectedly hungup. Pleas verify your settings and try again." This has been coming up quite frequently. No real problems, though.
This is perhaps the most absurd issue Mac owners have to deal with... the modems provided in Apple's desktops and laptops are pure crap.... this is the only time you'll hear me say this about any Apple technology, BTW.
Rarely do they connect at the speed they could/should, and the connections are very unreliable.
Our iMac G4 (800mhz/SuperDrive) frequently disconnects itself... but not really. It no longer provides useful communication with the ISP, and the "disconnecting... disconnecting... disconnecting..." message cycles on the menubar over and over. Once, just for the heck of it, I left it to see how long the timeout cycle was. 45 minutes later, I'd had enough and disconnected the phone cord.
We've tried different modem scripts, different telephone cords, line-conditioners, etc. with no luck. The connection issues were the same under OS 9, OS X (10.2, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6, 10.2.8, and now 10.3). The funny thing? My iBook, on the same line, performs significantly better.
Apple's discussion forum area is chock-full of modem problem reports... one wonders if the folks in Cupertino think that everyone outside California also has DSL...
I think it has more to do with the service provider and the line quality.. I've had macs for several years, and they always connect flawlessly with my service provider in Gaspe...
Well speaking from the wilderness, well almost, we have a dialup connection that we maintain just in case. When I connect any of the Mac's to it, the most I can get is 31.2. When I hook the Linux machine up I'll get 42 - 44 that range.
We do have 'dirty' lines out here, really dirty actually, Bell is here like every month looking at the lines.
So not sure what you can make of that, but I do agree that the Mac modems seem a little more sensitive to noise on the line.
So, this being the case, as many acclaim, would it be worthwhile to purcahse an external modem, such as US Robotics, etc? I am now wondering if my 31,200 is all I can get on our phone lines, or possibly better?????
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