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Harry Bradley wrote in message
<47fb8f9078hbradley@argonet.co.uk>.
..
>I seem to be plagued with
disconnections indicated as:
>
>The Modem has indicated that it
has lost the signal. As a result,
Voyager
>has been disconnected from the
Internet.
>
>Now this is not too annoying under
normal circumstances, but since I
am
>a Cable & Wireless/Mercury
subscriber, many of you will
doubtless know
>that at weekends I can connect for
as long as I like for a maximum
>charge of 50p.
>Consequently each time the
connection is lost, charging starts
again !!
>Over the ten weeks since the offer
started, about four fifths of my
>connections have failed, at
differing durations from 40 mins to
over
>4 hours.
>I have generally contacted C&W
soon after, and on earlier
occasions they
>said they could trace the call
within one hour. At the time they
could not
>prove whether the fault was theirs
or elsewhere, so I got a couple of
>refunds. I dont always bother to
re-connect. Then on several
weekends C&W
>had computer problems and could
not check anything.
>I use a Smart Socket plus and they
thought this might be the cause,
but
>by-passing it proved no help.
>C&W also suggested that I get BT
to up the gain on my line, but
since I
>was then on an analogue TX4E
exchange, it was not possible.
>Earlier this month my exchange was
changed over to digital, but the
>following weekend it happened
again.
>This time C&W said they were able
to check their switches, and they
were
>not at fault, but that the call
was broken at the other end, by my
ISP
>PIPEX.
>I have also tried dialling in on a
different number, but the problem
>remains.
>I have complained through Argonet
/who have my account/ but had no
>response yet.
>Is there a PIPEX complaints number
?
>Anyone else had similar problems ?
>Can C&W, up to an hour later, tell
where a connection failed ?
>
>I would add that I have not had
this problem when connected via BT,
but
>then I rarely exceed 60 mins when
using BT.
>
>Any help gratefully received.



I had this problem with BTI a while
ago connecting through BT.  The
problem turned out to be a modem
incompatibility between my Motorola
3400 and their modems.  The problem
was fixed when BTI provided me with
a new init. string.

Robert

On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:34:38 +0000 (GMT), Harry Bradley
<hbradley@argonet.co.uk> wrote:


>Any help gratefully received.
>
Buy a leased line!

IMO your ISP is at fault for not providing a CoU which prohibits
the use of servers from a dial-up account.

-- 
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Installing new software is merely a state of mind.
Total Paranoia!

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 10:00:44 -0000, Robert M <dont_reply@here.com> wrote:

[snip]

Any reason for the terminal width of 36 characters?  I makes it almost as
hard to read as those who choose >76 characters.


Mark
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Mark Corcoran wrote in message ...
>On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 10:00:44 -0000, Robert M
<dont_reply@here.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>Any reason for the terminal width of 36
characters?  I makes it almost as
>hard to read as those who choose >76 characters.


Mark,

Sorry about that, I am still trying to sort out
this MS Outlook Express Crap!!!

Robert

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:40:33 -0000, Robert M <dont_reply@here.com> wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Sorry about that, I am still trying to sort out
>this MS Outlook Express Crap!!!

Ah, 'nuff said.  I could sell you a MicroVAX and some decent(ish) newsreader
software if you prefer.  At least that way, you can't get >80 characters
without it being obviously silly!


Mark (who knows that this isn't uk.adverts.computers or some such)
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In article <47fb8f9078hbradley@argonet.co.uk>, Harry Bradley
<URL:mailto:hbradley@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I seem to be plagued with disconnections indicated as:
> 
> The Modem has indicated that it has lost the signal. As a result, Voyager
> has been disconnected from the Internet.
> 
(snip)
> This time C&W said they were able to check their switches, and they were
> not at fault, but that the call was broken at the other end, by my ISP
> PIPEX.
> I have also tried dialling in on a different number, but the problem
> remains.
> I have complained through Argonet /who have my account/ but had no
> response yet.
> Is there a PIPEX complaints number ?
> Anyone else had similar problems ?
> Can C&W, up to an hour later, tell where a connection failed ?
> 
> I would add that I have not had this problem when connected via BT, but
> then I rarely exceed 60 mins when using BT.
> 
> Any help gratefully received.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Harry
>  
> 
Have you looked at your log files, these may give a clue to the cause.
Are there any "timers" for idle time ie time out after x minutes if there
is no activity at your system ???
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                               g6tsf@amsat.org
                     

In article <349d9b5e.15054616@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Robert N Young <youngrn@best.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 18:34:38 +0000 (GMT), Harry Bradley
><hbradley@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Any help gratefully received.
>>
>Buy a leased line!

> IMO your ISP is at fault for not providing a CoU which prohibits the use
> of servers from a dial-up account.

I don't understand this comment. Do you mean that a machine using a dialup
account can't listen for incoming TCP connections? That would be somewhat
unenforcable, given the nature of many Internet protocols, where the TCP
connection is actually made in the reverse direction to that expected.

FTP, SMTP mail delivery, identd (used by IRC for example) and many other
services rely on daemons running on the "client". Add in the fact that many
other daemons are often running, if only to serve an intranet, but which
can also be called over the Internet. Even humble Windoze machines tend to
listen to at least port 139.

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