Losing connection probs?
Angus Manwaring
I've recently (over the last week) had a problem with my
connection suddenly being dropped for no apparent reason. The modem, a USR
28.8 Sportster which has no sound, doesn't indicate I've lost the
connection, but I clearly have. If I can't finger status@gate, and all
other activity has suddenly stopped then I'm assuming something's probably
not right. :)
I called Demon, who apparently "don't support the Amiga" :) and managed to
get one person to suggest I changed my Demo phone number from a 01749
nuber to an 0845 number. I've done this, but it's too early to say if
things have improved at all yet. I have had the line dropped once,
immediately after connection, with the newer number though.
So has anyone else being experiencing any problems? Any advice?
All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)
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Angus Manwaring
>>>>>> "AM" == Angus Manwaring <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> writes:
AM>> Hi all, I've recently (over the last week) had a problem with my
AM>> connection suddenly being dropped for no apparent reason. The modem,
AM>> a USR 28.8 Sportster which has no sound, doesn't indicate I've lost
AM>> the connection, but I clearly have. If I can't finger status@gate,
AM>> and all other activity has suddenly stopped then I'm assuming
AM>> something's probably not right. :)
AM>> I called Demon, who apparently "don't support the Amiga" :) and
AM>> managed to get one person to suggest I changed my Demo phone number
AM>> from a 01749 nuber to an 0845 number. I've done this, but it's too
AM>> early to say if things have improved at all yet. I have had the line
AM>> dropped once, immediately after connection, with the newer number
AM>> though.
AM>> So has anyone else being experiencing any problems? Any advice?
>I recently changed to the new 0844 number; connections are
>generally slower than the 0845 number and seem to take longer to
>establish, but I don't have problems like yours unless Demon have
>internal network problems (which seem to be more frequent than
>they should be).
What can then happen is that the TCP/IP buffers
>get full of unsent packets, and all traffic stops even though the
>connection is still working.
(Is there anyway of recovering from this once it has happened without
logging off? My experience indicates not.)
Thanks Dave. Well, I've not had the problem yet with the 0845 number but
what it sometimes does is just drop the connection immediately after I've
connected. I get the HELLO appear in me little window, and then nothing. I
also can't then get rid of the dialer window without rebooting. Bother! :)
Angus Manwaring
>>>>>> "AM" == Angus Manwaring <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> writes:
AM>> Hi all, I've recently (over the last week) had a problem with my
AM>> connection suddenly being dropped for no apparent reason. The modem,
AM>> a USR 28.8 Sportster which has no sound, doesn't indicate I've lost
AM>> the connection, but I clearly have. If I can't finger status@gate,
AM>> and all other activity has suddenly stopped then I'm assuming
AM>> something's probably not right. :)
AM>> I called Demon, who apparently "don't support the Amiga" :) and
AM>> managed to get one person to suggest I changed my Demo phone number
AM>> from a 01749 nuber to an 0845 number. I've done this, but it's too
AM>> early to say if things have improved at all yet. I have had the line
AM>> dropped once, immediately after connection, with the newer number
AM>> though.
AM>> So has anyone else being experiencing any problems? Any advice?
>I recently changed to the new 0844 number; connections are
>generally slower than the 0845 number and seem to take longer to
>establish, but I don't have problems like yours unless Demon have
>internal network problems (which seem to be more frequent than
>they should be).
Dave, and anyone else listening, I've had some response form Demon, and so
far things are looking good.
The first guy suggested I use the following number instead of my old 01749
number:
0845-3505033
This was better but would frequntly drop connection immediately after
connecting.
The second guy I spoke to said the above number was primarily for Demon
games, and that I should use:
0845-2121666
Which has given me no problems whatsoever. :)
Terrance Richard Boyes
> On 6 Nov 2000 19:0:35 +0000, "Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> said:
>> 0845-2121666
> The Purple ROMP. One of my fallbacks - I've not found it noticeably
Purple is same kit as the G4/G5 (Surftime numbers).
> better than the Green ROMP (0845 212 0666), which is my primary fallback.
Green is 3COM, which works better with USR modems.
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Angus Manwaring
>> Dave, and anyone else listening, I've had some response form Demon, and
>> so far things are looking good.
>> The first guy suggested I use the following number instead of my old
>> 01749 number:
>> 0845-3505033
>The Black ROMP. I've never tried it.
I'm not surprised, apparently if the user's courage is imperfect, the
black romp will annihilate his soul.
Sorry, quiet Sunday. :)
....anybody spot the quote adaption?