dial-up cuts

That's fairly common.  Not really a problem.

hi

cold it be a problem with vista or my note book? i have a dimension 3000 desktop with XP and it never  hapens

 

thanks for info

If your 3000 doesn't do it, that is the exception rather than what usually happens. 

 

With a thunderstorm and lightning you should not even be on line as there is the potential for lightning hitting the modem and the PC.  And if you get a lightning strike in most cases the motherboard and power supply are "toast". 

 

With the modem on line and someone taking a phone off hook, the dial tone can be introduced into the line and that can cause the modem to try and "retrain" (resync) and can cause it to hang up or go off line.  It can also introduce errors in the data and that can also cause the modem to try and resync and drop off the line.  I've been working with modems since 1973, and dial up's since the mid 70's - although they have improved they still basically work like they did in the 70's and that is almost anything can cause an interruption and cause an outage. 

thanks for the info

 

dial-up is the only option the we have,bell sympatico have been promissing us highspeed since 2004 and every year they have a difrent excuse why it's not avaible.  OH WELL

 

mike3960