[DuoList] Bad dial-up

[Michael Belless]

My ISP has a policy that if I do not make a request of it every so often.
Even if I am constantly downloading or say, playing Yahoo Chess (which is
Java).   Then If I do not make a request to do something else.  Like check
eamail.  Then their server presumes my computer is 'Not functional"  and
"drops my connection.".  Sorry I should have said I am on Windows 95 when
this happens.  Within the   "Dialer"  supplied by my ISP is an option to
tell the ISP server not do    "drop my connection"  due to inactivity.  The
only activity the ISP server counts down from is like, getting a new web
page, or actively checking email.   Option two to test this would be to get
on and every five minutes make a request of some kind.  Like to get a new
web page, actively check email.    In the same vein, I heard that a computer
which was llistening to a streaming audio of a conference, where the ISP
kept  "dropping connection".  Once again, the ISP saw the line as
"Inactive".


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Allen" <jimallen at bright.net>
To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."
<duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: [DuoList] Bad dial-up


> I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you a technical explanation, but
here's
> some  anecdotal help. I once had a similar (almost identical) problem and
it
> was infrastructure related. After a couple of years of verbally abusing my
> ISP (who was always nice despite it), they finally convinced me it was
> infrastructure related. When I started calling the phone company (the ISP
> and phone service were different entities, but both local),  I  got every
> excuse in the book, ending with the, "we don't guarantee anything but a
dial
> tone and a voice connection," that kinda ends all the conversation. The
> phone company's wiring and switching gear was old and even our phone
> service was not particularly reliable. The proof came when I took the same
> machine to a part of the country with better infrastructure (oddly a much
> more rural area) and had no more problems.
>
> Jim Allen
>
>
> > From: Roger Gouin <roger at islandnet.com>
> > Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."
> > <duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:06:24 -0700
> > To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers."
> > <duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Subject: Re: [DuoList] Bad dial-up
> >
> > At 1:39 AM -0400 4/22/05, mark didine wrote:
> >> Months and months, getting dropped every few minutes, I phoned
> >> Network Help, and one guy said they don't support FreePPP anymore.
> >> What else is there? Something better than 2.6.2 ?
> >>
> >> p.s. I'm not sure it's not my old 2nd-hand Wallstreet, OS 9.2.1.
> >> One guy said it must be on my end because they don't send
> >> cut-off signals; their modems are just on all the time.
> >> True?
> >> Screwed?
> >
> > There's a greater chance it's something else and probably a bad phone
> > line. I had a hell of a time with one place I was living because the
> > phone line ran right beside the power line and it's was impossible
> > when it rained. Any way check for interference from other wires and
> > devices. (Some TVs may interfere) and can you hear any cracking on
> > the line. There's also another debatable issue of crossed polarity in
> > the house wiring, I read about somewhere.
> > Seems to me the other issue is. They either support PPP or they
> > don't. Of course, there may be other factors.
> >
> >
> > Roger,
> >
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