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Anon | reply to Anon
PPPoE spontaneous disconnects solved!
I jumped up and down and hollered at Bell Atlantic until they finally sent out a technician with a laptop to test the line. Unfortunately, the dummies sent the technician out the door with a Windows 98 machine, even though I told them *repeatedly* that I'm running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (i.e., not a fair comparison).
The technician was not able to reproduce the problem on his Win98 laptop, but he did see the spontaneous combustion occurring on my NT workstation. He noticed that the problem only seemed to occur when he stopped surfing the web or checking e-mail, which got me to thinking...
Since I'm a software developer, I decided to build a small applet that does nothing but ping a server every X seconds to keep the connection busy (but not so often that performance is degraded). Problem solved! My workstation has now been online for over two hours with no disconnections.
(By the way... since the Bell Atlantic technician wasn't able to fix my connection, he said that he would call me later Friday to arrange another visit with a Windows NT laptop. Of course, he LIED  ... he never called.) | |
Anon | What a whiner. So what boils down to is that your system was problem, not the DSL. If you (an all-knowing 'software developer') had known how properly configure your system, there never would have been an issue. And then you question his veracity. Whatever. | |
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