Paul Cundle said,
>> This is only a guess, but by default some modems will disconnect after
>> about ten minutes of inactivity.
> Sorry, I forgot to say that this wasn't the cause. I'd only been
> dormant for about 2 minutes.
> I believe ISPs will do this after a while to stop you hogging their
> lines all day.
It's actually to keep you from running up a humungous phone bill by
forgetting to disconnect before going to work.
Occasionally someone does this and then tries to blame U-NET for the
bill because they didn't get timed out (usually because they had a mail
program or ICQ keeping the connection active).
Neil
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