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In message <ant311224339kSVA@client1.local>
          Paul Richardson <paul@explan.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <4a15bf9051david@davidkanareck.demon.co.uk>, david
> <URL:mailto:david@davidkanareck.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Over the past two weeks, I had time to check this out. To recap, several
> > of us are experiencing 'drop-out' when connected via Demon. [...]
> > Concerning the modem, I loaded Paul Vigay's excellent !ChangeISP used with
> > his AntUtils and connected via my freebie Virgin account. Guess what? No
> > problems!! No dropout!! So, it's not the modem, which leaves Demon.
> >
> Yes, we experience the the link to demon going down to a crawl and then
> a complete stop after about 10 minutes or so of web-use. If you're
> prepared to wait another 5 minutes [yawn] then it self-resurrects
> itself!
> 
> This doesn't normally bother us since our links to demon are almost
> exclusively 1 minute logins for email.
> 
> However, I've monitored the problem over the last 18 months through an
> upgrade of the ANT Server Suite which we use, and a change of modem.
> I've also had BT change the gain on the phone line, and there's been a
> recent software upgrade at our local exchange. These had no effect.
> 
> The only common denominator is Demon themselves.
> 
> I gave up trying to persue this through them, and our Demon account will
> shortly close.
>

I have cross-posted this to demon.ip.support.archimedes as I know they
do monitor their support newsgroups.  In fact the whole of this thread
could usefully be on that newsgroup.

My problem has been that I cannot log on to the surf-time number during
the early evening, presumably hitting a u/s modem.  Anyone else
experiencing this?  (A bit of a waste of the surf-time sub.)

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                       tim@powys.org
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