On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hi
>
> > But a better soution would be to use diald, which has an advantage of
> > shutting down the connection on its own when the traffic volume dies.
> > Unfortunately i am yet to try diald myself
>
> Will it die if line sleeps? My home line sleeps like a pig as and when it wants.
though i havent tested it myself. ( not using the net from much) diald is
a fabulous piece of software. You can set the permissible timeouts. Times
when going online is forbidden. Automatic billing. Automatic disconnection
when a page the page i wan to browse has already been downloaded,
reconnection when i want to fetch another page.
I really should be checking it out
sreangsu
> There is absolutely no bytes coming in and going out for minutes. And then it
> restores or I reconnect. My usual work around is to keep pinging a site. Anyway
> this is just out of curiosity... I have almost dumped using home line.... I am
> not been able to pull my mails for last three weeks. I always get a pop3
> timeout.
same here :( but yesterday i was getting good speed
sreangsu
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