Let me see if anyone has any insight to my other problem. A couple of weeks ago, on my dial-up ISP, I started having trouble connecting, with errors that I was not getting a carrier signal. More specifically, there is a dial tone, the modem dials up, and then there's dead silence, which continues until you finally get the solid disconnect signal, like when someone hangs up on you. This is intermittent, but was becoming increasingly frequent and annoying.
If I just dialed the same number on my other phone line AND at my neighbor's house, I would get the same thing (intermittently) - dead air. So it's not the computer and it's not a Mac problem. The phone co. checked my lines and said they were fine. My ISP, Westworld/WGN was taken over by ez2.net some months ago - a good company, with great service, btw. They kept the same WGN phone numbers and servers, plus added the new EZ phone numbers. He told me then I could also use the EZ POP and STMP addresses, but they required authentication, so I stuck with the WGN addresses. What's curious is that the lack of a carrier signal occurs with both sets of phone numbers, which I understand are leased from different companies. Our best guess is that it has something to do with the switch at my CO. No one else has reported this problem, and there's only one other person that shares my CO at this ISP. Clearly, trying to unwrangle this is not an easy proposition. This is when he suggested I try the new numbers they've just added, from a 3rd company, but which require the authentication from my other msg. So far, I haven't experienced the carrier problems with those numbers, but since I can't send mail with them, I haven't used them much either. Any thoughts or insight? Alicia Alicia Gordon Gordon Word Artists French and Spanish Translation ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
