I can't maintain a connection for more than a half hour, with most connections lasting closer to a half minute.
The point of failure is likely the modem. The other components of the system (from the phone cord out to the network) seem to work fine, and when I use the modem built into my Powerbook, I get connect times orders of magnitude longer.
I have another external modem for my gateway, but pppd doesn't play nice with it (it complains about not being able to send LCP packets). I have no idea what's wrong. I have some internal modems too, but they're most likely Winmodems, and probably 14.4. And I have a WiFi card in my gateway, but the park's service coverage is just awful: it's around -70dB at best, not enough to connect.
So, I guess I'm invoking the UFicle... any options you can think of? The only real criteria are that it must be affordable---that is, less than $50 per month---and relatively low-latency: it needs to be suitable for ssh connections. |
