On 14-Feb-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Patrick Ford said,
>
>> On 12-Feb-00, Mike White wrote:
>
>>> Silly question.
>>> How do I persuade voyager/genesis to stay on line? I vaguely
>>> recall something about a 'ping' message to remind the sys that I'm
>>> online.
>
> Anything that maintains contact with a remote server will do this.
> Running an ICQ program or a mailbox watcher is as effective as
> pinging.
Yeah I tried that too when I was getting disconnections. Funny thing
is, I can stay on line for hours if I'm clicking a lot on www
orhaveing a heavy transfusion sesion from Aminet. But if there is no
data, pinging is not enough to prevent disconnection after approx
5-1/2 minutes.
>
>> All the same, ask telco to check your line, and consider not using
>> any splitter to plug the phone into the same line. Cordless phones
>> are more likely to upset modems.
>
>> And before anyone attacks their keyboard telling me they have no
>> problem, please DON'T!
>
> I have cordless phones on two lines, and have had no problems in
> years of use. But cordless phones are a source of problems, as are
> normal phones but cordless ones are more susceptible to failure.
At both places that the Dynalink had no problem/no problems I have one
ordinary cheapy telco phone and one cordless. Disconnecting both
phones at the place with problem reduced disconnections by 50%.
> You can have a perfectly working setup that suddenly starts giving
> trouble with no changes to your config.
Telco messing around with their installations no doubt.
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