Why does my USR Sportsters get slower and slower, and then suddenly disconnect?
This is the X2 version of ‘Spiral Death Syndrome’. The fix in most cases is to add S15=128 to the Init string to disable V.42 hardware error correction. It may also be necessary to add &K0 to the Init string to disable V.42bis hardware data compression. WARNING: Using these tips, your Internet performance may suffer when downloading non-compressed files.
