MY dial up disconnect itself after 4hours and 30 seconds.

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Hello:

I have winxp on my computer and I use dial up for my internet access.
MY dial up disconnect itself after 4hours and 30 seconds．
I was hoping that someone can help me extend this longer; especially when I
am downloading stuff.
please help.
thanx.
 
It is probably your ISP's DHCP rotation schedule. Nothing you can do. It's
the price you pay for staying on dial-up...limited number of lines in the
modem pool, so some have to be kicked off to make room for others. If your
lease expires at 4 hours and 30 minutes, and there are no new numbers to
lease, you have to wait until someone else is "aged off". Your choices:
pay more for a static IP (not worth it on dial up), or join the 21st century
and get a broadband connection (DSL being the best option, but cable if that
is all you can get).

Bobby
 
Contact your ISP and ask them. Remember that many ISP's will cut you off
after a certain period of time. It is their policy and YOU can not change
it!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
i had att and juno for a while they both cut me off after a few hours, said
it was unfair to tie up my phone lines, i tryed to get them to stop it, and
they wouldn't
 
Thanx u all.
I reviewed my ISP contract, it does this on rush hours between 6-12pm
everyday. it should only be in those hours, other times or certain times it
should be able to stay on longer. so it must be some internal switch that I
am not aware of inside my own computer. please help.
 
There is no "switch:" in your computer. Your ISP provides you with an IP
address, which they can change or drop at nay time. There is nothing you
can do to prevent this, other than to get rid of dial-up and go to DSL.
Even on cable, you can be kicked off (the cable company also over-sells).
ISPs sell more connections than they have the capability to support (just as
airlines overbook popular flights). They kick you off after a period of
time to allow others to connect. There is nothing you can do to change
this. You accepted their terms and conditions when you paid for their
service.

If you do not want to have this problem, switch to DSL. It is your only
choice.

Bobby
 
Right! With DSL you get your own "dedicated" line, direct to the CO (central
office). No one else is attached to it. It doesn't change speed when others,
also with their own dedicated DSL line, are doing heavy downloads. With
cable it may, and does!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
xenonhill said:
Hello:

I have winxp on my computer and I use dial up for my internet access.
MY dial up disconnect itself after 4hours and 30 seconds?
I was hoping that someone can help me extend this longer; especially when I
am downloading stuff.
please help.
thanx.
Click to expand...

Just a thought: You might want to check the setting in Control Panel \
Network...

Right-click your ISP name, properties, options. See what it has for
"idle time before hanging up".
 
But, OP states it happens when downloading large files, this would not then
be "idle time before hanging up" as packets are constantly being
sent/received during a file download.

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Richard and Bobby,

Unfortunately not everyone has access to DSL. I was forced to be on dial-up
until just recently when my cable company finally put broadband into service
in my community. DSL is still not available even though I am physically
less than 1/2 "wire" mile from the nearest CO. Verizon finally got decent
wireless service to my area. Hopefully DSL will follow and I'll be able to
get rid of cable.
 
Good luck to you! (-:

I had DSL for 4 years. I then got caught up in the cable hype and switched.
Well, that experiment lasted exactly 4 months. What a joke.

I am now back with DSL and have none of the problems that I was experiencing
with cable. DSL is just more reliable!

Cable is treated as "entertainment" by the cable companies. There is no rush
to solve problems or outages. DSL, on the other hand, treats DSL as a
communication service. I have never reported a problem that wasn't resolved
in a couple of hours. Each time I received a phone call from a phone company
representative (within a day or two) to find out if the problem has been
resolved to my satisfaction.

Hell, Time Warner Cable would never even acknowledge that the were HAVING a
problem!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
If you can't can't prevent the problem and you are downloading things, maybe
you want to consider using programs like getright...
 
Maureen Goldman
Just a thought: You might want to check the setting in Control Panel \
Network...

Right-click your ISP name, properties, options. See what it has for
"idle time before hanging up".
Click to expand...
But, OP states it happens when downloading large files, this would not then
be "idle time before hanging up" as packets are constantly being
sent/received during a file download.
Click to expand...

Nonetheless, it wouldn't hurt to check that setting. Your definition
of "idle time" may differ from the computer's notion of that term.
 
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