on 31/7/03 7:54 pm, Derf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan Gentle wrote at 17:02 +0100 on 07/31/03 about OT: ADSL"Stale Session" > >> My apologies for being a little OT but am curious about the use of the term >> "Stale Session" which was given to me when asking my ISP why I had suddenly >> lost access to my mailbox and the web with my ADSL account. > > A "Stale Session" normally refers to the ISP terminating the session > but the modem will not give up the IP address. This happens when the > modem is not controlled by a router and set to keep alive. Once the > ISP terminates a session for a IP the same ID can not log back in on > that IP. It normally only takes a few minutes to reset the modem > when power has been totally removed from the unit. > >> The advice was >> to turn off my Mac and ADSL modem, wait 30 minutes and restart. It didn't do >> the trick but turning it off overnight did! > > The reason it took so long was for normal circuit decay. Had you > totally removed power from the unit, 30 minutes should have been more > than enough time for the circuit to decay and reset to default. Thanks Derf for that explanation...
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