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02-28-2003, 11:59 PM
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Silver Dragon
  Join Date: March 25, 2001
Location: The Lion City
Age: 62
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My home PC's internet access is currently on a 56k dialup service. Lately something frustrating has been happening.
What happens is that the data being downloaded (whether d'ling email or web pages or files) stops. I have a counter that I can launch from the system tray, and it shows how much data is coming in and going out (that's how I discovered last year my PC was infected by a worm - the outgoing data was much higher than normal). There is still some bits/bytes going out, so I know the connection is still valid; it's the incoming data that stops. So I have to disconnect/reconnect. Sometimes it works, sometimes the problem will repeat itself. There appears to be no pattern; the problem just strikes randomly. While it's not a critical problem, it's downright irritating & frustrating. Especially when downloading email. When this happens, I have to download *all* the email from the POP server all over again. So you can imagine the time it takes, especially if someone has sent a 2MB or 3MB attachment (which my wife's friends are fond of doing). I spoke to the tech support of the ISP. They said to check my modem, check my phone line, blah blah. I suspect it could be a problem on *their* end. Could anyone suggest some possible causes for what I'm experiencing?
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03-01-2003, 01:03 AM
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Jack Burton
 Join Date: November 10, 2001
Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux
Age: 37
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Change ISP.
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03-02-2003, 04:08 AM
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Silver Dragon
Join Date: March 25, 2001
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I intend to - another local ISP has just launched a volume based broadband plan that looks quite attractive, and I pay as much as I am currently for a dial-up.
But I am curious as to what the cause of all my dial up difficulties could be... [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
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03-02-2003, 05:42 PM
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Jack Burton
Join Date: November 10, 2001
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03-02-2003, 06:57 PM
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40th Level Warrior
 Join Date: March 24, 2002
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emmm..you might want to consider having different ISP at one time. thus when one acting funny you'll still have the other to play with.
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03-05-2003, 07:07 AM
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Emerald Dragon
 Join Date: May 1, 2001
Location: melbourne victoria australia
Age: 58
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A better ISP is definitely in order. I had this problem with a few ISPs. Ive had 2 ISPs in the last 3 years that were truly reliable. Its frustrating when they make you sign a year long contract then provide a crappy service. Make em take you to court and sue you for the money.
In the meantime, get cable DSL or ADSL depending on what country youre in. I just got cable here in Australia and now I download at 1.5 meg per second and I never have to worry about getting disconnected, or even dialing up for that matter. Screw 5.5kps. 1.5Mbps is much more to my liking. I downloaded 4.5 GIGs in 5 days. Try that on dial up
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