[plug] Re: Short connect times

[Sol]

William Kenworthy wrote:

>Its fixed - I think:
>
>After it logged itself off of the iinet dialup last night after 80 or so
>minutes (THE PROBLEM), I put a win2000 box on the same modem etc and
>when I woke up this morning it was still online.  Oh Oh, I am thinking,
>my linux box is the problem.  So I swap the modem back and log in and
>now its still online after 3 1/2 hours!
>
>I am left with:
>1) iinet fixed the problem between about 530pm and 9pm last night
>2) or ditto for Telstra
>3) The Jupiter moved into a more favourable conjunction with mars
>4) iinet dialups need an occaisional fix of Bill Gates before continuing
>to work.
>
>ARRRRRGGGGG!
>
>I have had no further communication from either Telstra or iinet so its
>a mystery, but I actually favour reason 3.
>
>BillK
>
>
>
Don't be so sure, Bill. I have exactly the same problem and have had it 
for months. I'm with dingoblue, but I don't think that they're at fault. 
My brother never loses a connection on his XP laptop yet I lost them 
more frequently that I like. Yet sometimes I can get connections that 
last 12hours plus. I can't explain why this is, except to say that it 
seems to be related to what I'm doing. If I'm downloading something 
using ftp, I almost never have a problem. I never seem to encounter 
difficulty if I'm doing something constant or regular. But if I'm trying 
to download email, and lookup two sites, then the line will often crash 
- which it shouldn't do in theory.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to make a thorough investigation, 
and I'm starved for ideas on how to tackle this at any rate, apart from 
possibly ditching my el cheapo modem and getting something decent.

Sol