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Re: [LUG] Line noise vs broadband



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On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 5:16 pm, paul sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Who do I e-mail about line noise as I seem to be suffering the same problem
> my line keeps dropping and I have to reboot windows so I can try again,  so
> it's possible its the same cause.

I don't know about email, Paul, what I did was call 150 from my BT landline 
and report a fault. That will at least get BT to test the line. Unless you've 
had problems with VOICE calls, BT won't send out an engineer to test your BT 
socket and I would STRONGLY suggest that you plug your modem directly into 
the BT socket (with no other devices connected) and replicate the problem a 
few times before calling BT - otherwise they'll blame your extension cable.

On the Windows front - why on earth is Windows crashing on this? What error 
messages are you getting (by private email if poss - Windows error messages 
aren't exactly a topic for the LUG list!)

Haven't you got some way of connecting Linux to the internet? External modem? 
linmodem driver?
http://www.dclug.org.uk/archive/msg00222.html

This might not be the same problem as mine which has a lot more to do with 
failed connections. The line is dropped sometimes but it's the fact that it 
can take >30 minutes to get online that is the real problem.

Off to look at ISDN.

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Neil Williams
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