On Fri, 31 May 2002 05:00:34 -0700, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 20:57:39 +0300 (EEST), Cristian Burneci wrote:
>> Could be only a carrier loss. It usually happens when there are parasite >> signals on the phone line (like chirps). There is a guard time which helps >> modem distingush between a short duration carrier loss and a true hangup >> by the remote modem. It can be tweaked by modifying the value of the S10 >> register (ATS10=n tenths of second). At least this is the case with my US >> Robotics external modem. >> Cristian Burneci > Yes, but the key variable here is that this "hangup" only happens > while using the Insight editor while online. > The "hangup" never happens otherwise. If it was due to parasite > chirps on the phone line couldn't you expect to get hangups while > engaged in other online activities? Here's a little test for you to try. Connect to your ISP, fire-up Arachne, sit-back-and-do-nothing. You might need to wait for 10min, 15min, 20min or more. It varies from one ISP to another. (in my case, with CisNet.... 15min) What happened??? -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
