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A bad case of the "drop-carriers"......
Sep. 17th, 2004 12:11 amIt's been one of those days, folks.
While trying to download my email today, I received the dreaded "Connection to [ISP] terminated. Would you like to reconnect?" pop-up window. I had 5 drops the first time I checked today, between noon and 1 pm. I had 2 drops between 4 and 5 pm. Add I've had 2 more drops so far between 11pm and midnight. That's a total of 9 today -- a new record.
When I do log in again, the POP server has a 10-minute inactivity timeout, so I have to wait for 10 minutes while the terminated session expires.
( So....what can be done about it? )
Is it the cheap allegedly-category-1 phone line in the wall, which I suspect? Is it my phone cord? Is it my modem? And if I got DSL or broadband, would I still get these damned conenction drops?
As my late friend and fraternity brother Rob Sweeney used to say, "Line noise can kill!"
While trying to download my email today, I received the dreaded "Connection to [ISP] terminated. Would you like to reconnect?" pop-up window. I had 5 drops the first time I checked today, between noon and 1 pm. I had 2 drops between 4 and 5 pm. Add I've had 2 more drops so far between 11pm and midnight. That's a total of 9 today -- a new record.
When I do log in again, the POP server has a 10-minute inactivity timeout, so I have to wait for 10 minutes while the terminated session expires.
( So....what can be done about it? )
Is it the cheap allegedly-category-1 phone line in the wall, which I suspect? Is it my phone cord? Is it my modem? And if I got DSL or broadband, would I still get these damned conenction drops?
As my late friend and fraternity brother Rob Sweeney used to say, "Line noise can kill!"
