Maybe you can apply for a free account at www.freewwweb.com. It supports
Linux.
Vern wrote:
> Thanks Civileme for the quick reply!
> I can't believe it! Another windoze "gotcha!" is there any aspect of home
> computing they
> haven't tampered with to tilt the odds in their favor?? There are only
> three ISP's here locally
> and I have accounts with each. Service is very bad and I have to go from
> one to another to
> get a connection to the "real world". Things are improving we used to only
> have one ISP and
> if it was busy or the line was down you waited till later and tried again.
> If there is a problem
> and you call "tech support" they tell you to reinstall windoze, so finding
> anyone who knows
> about NetBIOS would be next to impossible. I can't afford the long distance
> charges to reach
> a "real" ISP so I guess I'm stuck. Thanks again for telling me what was
> going on anyway.
> Vern
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] KPPP vs Win98
>
> > Vern wrote:
> >
> > > Well here's maybe an easy one for you gurus to answer, I have thesame
> > > internet hookup from Mandrake 7.0 and Win98, but the mdkconnect gets
> > > "bumped" offline after 10-15 min. whether I'm browsingdownloading or
> > > getting email/newsgroups. Any clues? What tweaksam I missing? MTU's?
> > > port speed? don't know where to find outabout the UART's and buffers
> > > in Linux yet, so I don't know. I can stayhooked up to the same ISP's
> > > for hours with Win98, I do know that theyall use Win NT servers (it
> > > says so right in the details). This may be oldstuff, but I haven't
> > > run across it yet.Thanks in advance.Vern
> >
> > Find a different ISP. This is a little NetBIOS check "to prevent IP
> > spoofing" that Microsoft cheerfully supplies to brain damaged ISPs. 15
> > minutes is the shortest interval I have heard of, but the symptoms are
> > the same for cable modems and even some dsl's. Or contact your ISP and
> > see if you can find someone competent to disable this "feature" for
> > you. If they all have their MCSE's from the back of a matchbook,
> > probably they will be unable to help you.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> >
