[X Newbies] OSX not dial-up friendly

David Crandon tabdave at comcast.net
Wed Sep 24 11:07:12 PDT 2003


True, however you could set it to disconnect after just one minute....

David



On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 08:09  AM, Deb Hagen wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 08:00  PM, Florin Alexander Neumann 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 20:00 Canada/Eastern, Paul Korntheuer 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  and after downloading emails, manually disconnect.
>>
>> System Preferences > Network > Internal Modem (or whatever modem 
>> you're using) > PPP > PPP Options > Disconnect if idle for n minutes.
>
> Why can't there just be a checkbox to "disconnect after getting the 
> mail" like I used to do in Outlook Express?  I don't want to 
> "disconnect if idle" because that's what my ISP does to me if I take 
> too long reading a particular Web page before clicking again.  I use 
> the same method as Paul: start up OS X Mail & internet connection, 
> then go make coffee.  It seems that OE wins in this category, IMHO!
>
> Deb Hagen
>
>
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