Name: dominicus Date: August 5, 2005 at 08:21:12 Pacific Subject: Arachne won't connect w/cable net OS: Various CPU/Ram: Various
Comment:
Although i've asked this question several times over the last couple of years, without success, i'll try again as the problem still occurs.. I have hi-speed (cable) internet access with which I have been able to connect all my machines to the net (everything from a 16 year old SE/30 Mac to a win31 486, with various OS's from BeOS to Linux, MacOS to Windows... None of them have had any problem accessing the net... I also had Arachne on both the 486 and a pentium..which worked fine until one day about 2 years ago, when I started up Dos/Arachne and found it would no longer connect to any website- simultaneously on both Arachne-equipped computers, despite the settings having not changed at all. Sice then I have tried several re-installs, with the correct settings ( i know what they should be) , with just no joy.. Win31x on the same computers connects just fine, as does BeOS, so i don't think it's an "obsoleted OS" kind of thing.. I have never received any kind of response from support, other than an 'operator' who said "you need Windows XP or 2000 to connect to our service" (!), so i hold out no hope there.... Has anyone else had any cable internet connection problems with arachne ? (particularly in Canada, where i live)- and did you find a solution...?? Pleez..i have just *no* use for windows on the 486 (it's only for my Dos pinball games..) and would love to just love to re-enable dos net connectivity... Thanx.....
I'm sorry if i don't sound much inspired by answering to one with two more but that's all that comes to me at the moment:
1) Have you tried everything on your router, as DMZ ports or DHCP tweaks for example?
2) What happens if you use plain numeral IP addresses (in the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)?
If this desease is spreading and threathens to reach the Quebec province i ought to know, especially if you are to identify the source of the problem and then find a cure for it!!!
My suggestion would be to use a ROUTER between the cable modem and PC's so it acts as a DHCP Server. Setup Arachne 1.85 to obtain an IP address from DHCP and that should work. If on launching Arachne you get a rejecting zero address message and no connection, ALT+X and launch Arachne again. This behaviour happens to me on a modem router but you could always reconfigure Arachne to wait longer for a connection to be established.
About "Arachne won't connect w/cable net" of August 5:
MN> I am wondering if it is a speed thing. e.g MN> old sw or hw can fail when presented with too MN> much memory or a something is too fast.
I noticed that's no affirmative statement but this gives way to a question: how much is too much?...
GNet's BB0060 ADSL MoDem/Router is operable via a console/TelNet (RS-232/EtherNet) interface using its DB-9 cable-adaptor or just regular 10/100 Mbps RJ-45 terminated wiring, which means support for a few OSes (OS-X, 'nix flavours, Win-16/32) and, why not, DOS. Documentation is scarce, interfacing is far from being user-friendly and the ChipSet maker isn't helping but that's only one single sample...
P^)
In any case, `MS-Kermit' will transfer a .ZIP file at over 25 Kcps on a 486-50 Mhz, almost 50 Kcps on a P1-200 Mhz and about 70 Kcps on a P3-933 Mhz. I am sorry i didn't have time to make tests on other PCs but i can testisfy that this piece of SoftWare shows a DOS LEGACY contraption doesn't necessarily break down along the upgrade path. I observed the contrary when using `MS-Kermit': performance will degrade gracefully as one moves back into time and i can't say i've reached its bottleneck yet! I'll need to upgrade to 4 Mbps ADSL or Cable access for that - and move even closer to the Central Office!
Again, my comment is added with the provision it's not meant to respond to a positive statement, call it an exception confirming the rule if it suits...
sorrty i've not gotten back earlier, but dealing with the arachne thing is a low priority for me at the moment (i'm not using those machines much so am not watching threads closely..). No, not a speed thing..seeing as it occurs on both the pentium and the 486, which have at least 10 mbps, and connect with windows etc. just fine. A dns problem was in fact the first thing that occured to me, that my isp had changed how that was acessed somehow..alas, plain numerical addresses don't connect either (at least the ones i tried). No way right now to try more, as both machines are dismantled temporarily... As it happens i have a router already between the cable modem..have tried with and without with no luck.. Will keep trying...
