[I don't know what happened to this - I sent it out two hours ago and, though Eudora showed it as being sent without a problem, it never showed up on the list! So, here goes another try. -Tom]
Deb, I didn't mean to upset you. I don't get disconnected "every 5 minutes" - it only happens after 5 minutes of *inactivity*. If I am in an edit, upload, check cycle, I usually make small changes that take less than 5 minutes and am able to cycle many times without being disconnected. If I need to make some time- consuming changes, though, I simply minumize Windows Commander until I've finished the changes and then reconnect to continue the cycle - no big annoyance. I used to get aggravated at it when I first began designing, but once I realized that nearly all sites have that limit, I accepted it and worked around it. You mentioned 5-10 seconds for reconnect as many as 50 times in an 8 hour period. Worst case at 10 seconds times 50 reconnects works out to 500 seconds, or just over 8 minutes total time for reconnects over an 8 hour period. I wish that were *all* of my time that got wasted over 8 hours!<G> What I wouldn't give to have your cable modem connection! :) BTW, one of my 'tricks' I use to keep my session open - when I realize that I'm approaching my time limit, I simply click on a different folder on my site for a listing. Any FTP command will reset the timer. Also, I've *never* been timed out during a long upload or download - only when the session is sitting idle. I've downloaded entire sites that, on my dialup, took over an hour without being disconnected. Another observation: how does one 'ping' an FTP session? If I ping mydomain.com, that has nothing to do with the FTP session. Pinging ftp.myhost.com only pings the *public* ftp site - not the one I use for uploading/downloading site files. I hope you come to some closure with this - it's not really that annoying if it is expected and worked with. Cheers, Tom At 12:31 PM 09/04/2002 -0500, Deb wrote: This just makes no sense at all. I can't be the only web designer >in the world that keeps their connections open when working, can I? >Does everyone else open the connection, upload, shut down, check >pages, fix pages, open the connection, upload, shut down, check >pages, fix pages, open the connection ..... etc ??????????? Or does >everyone just put up with having to reconnect every 5 minutes? I'm >dead serious here, I'd really like to know how people handle this, >maybe I'm missing something that works better than what I do. > >How do they expect people to work when the darn thing is shutting >down every 5 minutes? That's hardly enough time to upload a few >files and check the pages in a couple browsers. > >I would say it takes >maybe 5-10 seconds to reconnect each time, but you multiply that >by say 50 times in about 8 hours and it gets not only time consuming >but FRUSTRATING AT ALL GET-OUT!!! > >I have cable modem to help >me save time, this slow crap is working against my cable modem speed >and I may as well use a dialup then, where a ping will work! > >I should think a more >reasonable time would be minimum of 20 minutes and an hour would >be even better. > >There are firewalls and antivirus programs out there >for protection. No, they're not foolproof, I understand, but .. oh what's >the use? I'm sick to death of the whole thing. Apparently I'm the only >person in the world who this bothers and who doesn't understand >why one is so limited in this fashion, otherwise enough complaints >would have been given to these server people and they'd do something >to fix this to a more reasonable time frame. > >Thanks to all who tried to help or give input :) > >Deb > > > >____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ >To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > >________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > >You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
