[P1] disconnect

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 12:24 -0400 22/08/03, don hinkle wrote:
>darn, using my phone modem I was uploading a 2MB file, taking its 
>sweet time at 46K, and suddenly it disconnects because of "no 
>response from the other side". Is there some time cutoff on this 
>thing? I think it had run about 15-20 minutes before the disconnect. 
>Is there some way to tell it "don't disconnect until an hour passes?"

I think that's an ISP function. I had the same problem for a long 
time from my friendly local dialup ISP who kept telling me that it 
was my problem. Except my problem kept getting worse as he enrolled 
more hookups. When I switched to broadband last November, my problems 
went away.
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3333333 de Fred