Losing connection probs?

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2 total messages Started by Angus Manwaring Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:38

#136

Author: Angus Manwaring
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:38

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Hi all,
	I've recently (over the last week) had a problem with my
connection suddenly being dropped for no apparent reason. The modem, a USR
28.8 Sportster which has no sound, doesn't indicate I've lost the
connection, but I clearly have. If I can't finger status@gate, and all
other activity has suddenly stopped then I'm assuming something's probably
not right.  :)

I called Demon, who apparently "don't support the Amiga" :) and managed to
get one person to suggest I changed my Demo phone number from a 01749
nuber to an 0845 number. I've done this, but it's too early to say if
things have improved at all yet. I have had the line dropped once,
immediately after connection, with the newer number though.

So has anyone else being experiencing any problems? Any advice?


                  All the best,
                        Angus Manwaring.       (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

Re: Losing connection probs?

#137

Author: Angus Manwaring
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:00

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On 02-Nov-00 20:23:01, Dave Sparks said
>>>>>> "AM" == Angus Manwaring <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> writes:

  AM>> Hi all, 	I've recently (over the last week) had a problem with my
  AM>> connection suddenly being dropped for no apparent reason. The modem,
  AM>> a USR 28.8 Sportster which has no sound, doesn't indicate I've lost
  AM>> the connection, but I clearly have. If I can't finger status@gate,
  AM>> and all other activity has suddenly stopped then I'm assuming
  AM>> something's probably not right.  :)

  AM>> I called Demon, who apparently "don't support the Amiga" :) and
  AM>> managed to get one person to suggest I changed my Demo phone number
  AM>> from a 01749 nuber to an 0845 number. I've done this, but it's too
  AM>> early to say if things have improved at all yet. I have had the line
  AM>> dropped once, immediately after connection, with the newer number
  AM>> though.

  AM>> So has anyone else being experiencing any problems? Any advice?

>I recently changed to the new 0844 number; connections are
>generally slower than the 0845 number and seem to take longer to
>establish, but I don't have problems like yours unless Demon have
>internal network problems (which seem to be more frequent than
>they should be).
What can then happen is that the TCP/IP buffers
>get full of unsent packets, and all traffic stops even though the
>connection is still working.

(Is there anyway of recovering from this once it has happened without
logging off? My experience indicates not.)

Thanks Dave. Well, I've not had the problem yet with the 0845 number but
what it sometimes does is just drop the connection immediately after I've
connected. I get the HELLO appear in me little window, and then nothing. I
also can't then get rid of the dialer window without rebooting. Bother! :)

                  All the best,
                        Angus Manwaring.       (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

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