Hi all,

I understand that this problem may have been solved already, but my net connection on OS4 keeps dropping every couple of minutes, sometimes every 30 secs.

Is there anything I can do to get around it until it gets properly fixed?

Cheers

Rassilon

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@Rassilon

Hi. I have also problems with my internet connection.
I have ADSL using DHCP (not static). My internet
provider is called BredBandsBolaget (Sweden).

On my classic amiga using miamidx my connection goes
down every 60minutes. Seems like miamidx has problems
getting new IP (renew of release ip or something like that)
So there i have only to reconnect after 60min.

On my AmigaOne it can disconnect whenever. Roadshow
doesnt complain. But if i ping there comes nothing.
Sometimes even the first time i login i cant ping.
Sometimes it works for some minutes and going down.

I keep login with addnetinterface and logging out with netshutdown.
But im tired of this and im back to Miamidx. Slower but its works.

I hope its only some bug that has been removed.
Anyone else ?

@Rassilon

I have not yet had problems with Roadshow throwing me offline (Telewest Broadband). I even left OS4 running for over 6 hours playing some net radio station to me while I slept (A kind of soak test I guess) & it was still pumping the music when I woke up.

I do however have slow sections. You can see this when a buffer is filling for the audio streams I play. The buffer fills, stops, fills a bit more, stops etc... It causes some webpages to take an age to download too. aw,net isn't quite as fun as it should be.

FuZion.

@FuZion

Yes, I got the slowdown with A1200<>A1 static LAN too, at first I transfer at very near peak speed, nearly 1 megabyte per second via ftp toward the A1, but soon a new transfer drops to a fraction of just 14 kilobytes per second. And someone told it's the device driver that does this, not the stack. Using MiamiDX or such will probably prove this.

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@Kicko

So, MiamiDx doesn't support IP-refresh either.. too bad. I am, and have been, using Miami with Bredbandbolaget (BBB) for about 3 years (the LAN version) and it requires an update every 60 minutes. I could of course not live with this disconnection every hour so I made a program and an arexx-script that is keeping me online with the same IP for weeks and weeks, even through reboots!
Roadshow however have this functionality built-in so finally I can get rid of this script thingy I do however not have any problems keeping myself online now with my A1 on BBB (LAN). But I will soon move temporaly over the summer and use BBB over ADSL with my A1 and will be very interested in hearing about the problems and possible solutions to problems regarding this.

I don't have any problems with the net-speed either. IB with external image-decoding is lightning fast on the A1 compared to my A1200/060+PPC.

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@All

it would be interesting to see what type of A1 all those who are having problems with net access have.

I have an A1G3SE.

Rasslon

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Well I set up AmigaOS4 using the wizard with the router option and have had no internet connection dropout problems.

I did have to change the line it adds in s:user-startup to output to >nil after it stopped the radeon driver initialising properly ( output in user-startup seems to randomly cause display driver issues ). Since then its been fine.

However, taking the ethernet cable out and plugging it into my laptop - the laptop isn't able to connect unless I recycle the router.

@DaveP

Can anyone confirm that there has been an official statement to say that there is a problem with eth3com.device?

Cheers

Rassilon

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@Rassilon

I set up the AOne to use an ADSL router by using Prefs:Internet. The router stays up for months at a time with no change of IP address. The AOne has been on for eight hours at a stretch doing file transfers over the LAN and accessing the internet at the same time with browsers, irc clients, ftp etc. with not one discernable problem. I have just published a small book on setting up an AOne with LAN and Router in the guise of a reply to someone on the A1Users thread who was having problems getting on line with Roadshow.

Its just possible that there might be something there that helps you.

Regards
Roy Leith

@royleith

Any chance you can direct me to where the post is. I have had a look around AW.net but not found it

Cheers

Rassilon

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@Rassilon

I've never had any problems with my connection through Roadshow. I'm using DHCP with my ADSL router to claranet ADSL.

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@xeron

MiamiDx works fine with my router, as does Win98, Win XP and Debian PPC.

Its only Roadshow that seems to have an issue. I am not sure where to go first!

Rassilon

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@Rassilon

There's clearly something very, very badly wrong with the 3com driver. I've found that on my A1-SE it's basically unusable. As you've found, it drops the connection at random intervals. It also (on my system at least) often just doesn't work - after booting there's no ethernet connectivity at all.

And it is very slow. Transfering a large (700MB) file into the A1 via AmFTP resulted in an average speed of 440K/sec up to the point where the link died. Doing the same thing using my Amithlon box, which is plugged into the same router and also using AmFTP, gave a successful transfer at 6.8MB/sec.

It hope this gets fixed very soon.

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FYI, the issues you are refering to about eth3com are already known. i.e. no need to send en email to the OS4 team or such thing

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@elwood

ok thanks elwood, thats what I wanted to confirm. Is there any time frame on a fix at the moment?

Cheers

Rassilon

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@Rassilon

I have an A1-XE G4/800.
All you ppl who don't have a problem are either using a *router* or a LAN (like me at home). All of us who it doesn't work for are using a simple ADSL-modem (like me at my mums place).

My connection seems to be dropping about every 10 minutes. I'm using BBB-ADSL 10/1Mbit.

I hope this problem is not only know, but is also being fixed.

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@Deniil715

Well I have the same problem with my AOne too. It is the SE version and I am using Ethernet LAN no ADSL between me and the Internet. The connection drops every now and then, making it basically unusable for any net usage.

I also hope they are fixing it.

Other than that OS4 seems to work very well.

Keep up the good work.

@Rassilon

I also have an SE, and it happens here as well.

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@Rassilon

I there!
I'm too have problems with SE and network...My ADSL connection will drop very TOO often and will be very "slower" only 30kb/sec...on LinuxPPC I get 85kb/sec!!!
Some time when the connection hang if I made an access to the hd it will restart sometimes I've to reboot
I think that the problem was the oldest (respect the XE) Articia northbridge...
I hope(like all of you) taht this problem will be fixed very soon...

Tuxedo.

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@Deniil715

Quote:

All you ppl who don't have a problem are either using a *router* or a LAN (like me at home). All of us who it doesn't work for are using a simple ADSL-modem (like me at my mums place).

I'm using a router and I get lots of problems.

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