| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5329] |
Tue, 11 March 2003 08:37  |
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npsmith82
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Just a question to fuel my next project...
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How many of you have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that terminates the dialup connection after a specific period of time has passed (for example 2 hours)?
Many people from the UK who use services like Freeserve AnyTime or BT OpenWorld will know exactly what i mean.
I just need to see if there are many people here this applies to.
Thanks. 
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| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5540] |
Tue, 11 March 2003 14:37  |
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Epyon
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Well, if your using free, its a bit hard to complain...
But the only other way I would know would be inactivity.
Some (almost all) dial up isps will disconnect you if you go over a certian period of inactivity.
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| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5576] |
Tue, 11 March 2003 15:57 |
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General Havoc
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I had BTopenworld Anytime but got kicked off for over use so i went to BTopenworld ADSL.
Trust me if you live in the UK Dial up internet services are not worth using. There is an auto cutoff after 2 hours and you can't send a "heartbeat" to keep yourself connected it happened no matter what. Also BTopenworld anythjine is £14.99 a month and thats for only 150 hours online time a month, which to us is nothing. Also you can't use the phone at the same time meaing the cost of an additional line (£10) bringing us up to £24.99 a month for 150 hours online at 56K speeds and cutoffs every 2 hours. Compare that to what i pay, £27.99 a month unlimited online time, Phone can be used whilst online with no affect, and a data rate of 512K. Hardly seems worth the cost for dialup, i can never go back to it now.
512K: 200 Megabytes / Hour average (max 230.4 MB/hour @ 64k/s)
56K : 15 megabytes / Hour average (max 25.2MB/Hour @ 7k/s)
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| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5640] |
Tue, 11 March 2003 19:03 |
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The only ISPs I've heard that disconnected you after a certain time (or charge by how long you've been online) are European...
The ISPs over here don't disconnect after a period of innactivity...
And in what form of innactivity do they disconnect you for? If you havn't visited a webpage in so long? If you havn't clicked on something in the window etc.? If your modem stops sending info for so long? Etc?
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| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5668] |
Tue, 11 March 2003 20:34 |
tHz2
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The disconnect due to inactivity thing is a windows setting. I've haven't heard of the kind of disconnection described above happening since the early 1990s, even if they DO still do that, all you need is a program that goes "Oi!" every so often.
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| Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5734] |
Wed, 12 March 2003 04:06 |
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I really feel sorry for you guys on your 56K modems, especially if you are in the UK.
I had that piece of complete and utter crap from BT about 2 years ago and I got disconnected every hour or so without fail. Also if I kept trying to reconnect eventually they just locked me out and I would get error messages such as the "the line you are dialling is busy". I would have to wait 24 hours before I could reconnect, fucking amazing isn't when you pay them £14.99 per month and then don't give you a service.
In the end I went to BT Openworld ADSL and so far have not had any problems with them, no cutoffs, no capping, consistent high speed and low pings. I know the Broadband companies are pretty slow at rolling out to other parts of England, well any where out of London really but here is a link that might help: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ Here you will find the latest news on Broadband companies in the UK and there is a section where you can register your interest in Broadband in an area it is not currently available. Many companies set a threshold of "interested" users for a specific area, once this threshold is met they will install Broadband in that area. You can register your interested for you area at adslguide, I would suggest doing this if your area does not currently support Broadband.
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| Re: Question: Dialup Internet Users [message #5826] |
Wed, 12 March 2003 10:02 |
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npsmith82
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Just a question to fuel my next project...
Question:
How many of you have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that terminates the dialup connection after a specific period of time has passed (for example 2 hours)?
Many people from the UK who use services like Freeserve AnyTime or BT OpenWorld will know exactly what i mean.
I just need to see if there are many people here this applies to.
Thanks.
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I may be getting dial up soon so it may apply to me 
You thinking of righting a program that will stop this? nice :thumbsup:
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No, he IS NOT writing a program to stop this (not from when I last spoke to npsmith82). Just though I would set the facts straight so that no one gets the wrong idea
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Breetomas is absolutely right.
This is a screenshot of the program so far...
http://www.spliff.wideboys.co.uk/files/pictures/dialupwarning.jpg
The purpose of this is that if your internet follows a time limited session, it will inform you that the connection will soon disconnect. Many people have complained about Renegade, that if your internet disconnects mid-game you cannot reconnect to WOL for a few minutes because "your nickname is currently in use." If you were to leave the game, reconnect your internet then you're able to rejoin instantly, without waiting 2-3 minutes.
I hope i haven't given people the wrong idea about this project. I'm just fine tuning this little app right now, shouldn't be too long before it's ready.
WOL: npsmith82
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