If that were the case, I would also expect my dial
up networking to also disconnect, but it does not.

Also, it didn't seem to do this before 95a.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:10 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: QCTerm And Disconnects
>
>
>Tracy writes and essentially answers his own comment:
>
>> It was mentioned the other week by another and myself
>>  that my sessions in QCTerm have been disconnecting without
>>  apparent reason.
>>
>>  In further experience, I've noticed that this has only
>>  been happening when using QCTerm when using Dial-up
>>  networking with my local ISP.  It hasn't happened yet
>>  when I'm using my NIC card at work and going out through
>>  my company's firewall.
>
>The internet, if it travels over ordinary phone-grade phone
>lines, as it does
>from dial-up modems to your ISP, is still subject to all the
>snaps, cracks,
>and pops of line noise. Some of these are going to be
>significant enough to
>occasionally break the telnet connection. (Q: Why do telephone lines
>occasionally hum? A: They don't know the words.)
>
>Nonetheless, even in these circumstances, I've grown to be
>very impressed
>with the resiliency of the internet over phone lines as
>compared to the
>"toughness" of the ordinary modem connections that we were
>using just a few
>years ago. It wasn't long ago that I used to sit here and
>curse like a sailor
>when trying to work on a customer's machine somewhere else in
>the country.
>With dial-up PPP or SLIP connections, my level of cursing has
>dropped off
>considerably.
>
>But when you get onto internet-grade connections, I am just
>wildly impressed.
>We have left connections open to Neil Harvey's machine in
>South Africa open
>for weeks at a time and had no trouble at all -- and there the
>fibre optic
>cable wends itself through every curve and over every fall of
>the Great
>Zambesi River, alligators constantly chomping on the cable.
>
>(Actually, it's just a satellite hop, but that's not nearly as
>romantic.)
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
>
>
>

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