Mac in Brazil: connection gets dropped immediately after PPP establishment

[Georg Schwarz]

I'm trying to dial up to the Internet in Brazil with an iBook (OS
10.2.6) using a local ISP. On three (ubbi.com.br, itelefonica.com.br,
yahoo.com.br) out of four (+ ig.com.br) ISPs the connection drops
seconds after the successful PPP establishment. With IG I always get
about 33600 or 288000 connections, and they remain stable for hours.
All three ISPs use local access numbers.
What could be the cause of the connection dropping? I tried lowering the
connection speed to 9600 bps, but connecting at 9600 didn't make a
difference. Could it be that these ISPs *require* some specific
connection procedure? Has anybody been using any of these Brazilian ISPs
with a Mac (or some other non-MS OS)? Unfortunately I don't red
Portugese that well.


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Georg Schwarz [url]http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/[/url]
[email]geos@epost.de[/email] +49 177 8811442

[Kent Clarke]

In article <1fzzo5w.1h2tsrwjsggzkN%geos@epost.de>,
[email]geos@epost.de[/email] (Georg Schwarz) wrote:

> I'm trying to dial up to the Internet in Brazil with an iBook (OS
> 10.2.6) using a local ISP. On three (ubbi.com.br, itelefonica.com.br,
> yahoo.com.br) out of four (+ ig.com.br) ISPs the connection drops
> seconds after the successful PPP establishment. With IG I always get
> about 33600 or 288000 connections, and they remain stable for hours.
> All three ISPs use local access numbers.
> What could be the cause of the connection dropping? I tried lowering the
> connection speed to 9600 bps, but connecting at 9600 didn't make a
> difference. Could it be that these ISPs *require* some specific
> connection procedure? Has anybody been using any of these Brazilian ISPs
> with a Mac (or some other non-MS OS)? Unfortunately I don't red
> Portugese that well.

If it's like the modem in my Powerbook, it's a piece of software crap.
Look in Google groups for many complaints about these modems. Buy a real
external modem, and I'll bet your problem disappears.