Hi,

We've had broadband from BT for about a year, and it's worked pretty
well. Once you connect it stays on all day.

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?

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Hi,

We've had broadband from BT for about a year, and it's worked pretty
well. Once you connect it stays on all day.

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?

Might be better to ask this question in one of the bt.broadband support
groups or uk.telecom.broadband.

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Hi,

We've had broadband from BT for about a year, and it's worked pretty
well. Once you connect it stays on all day.

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?


could be an autodisconnect (after x mins) setting that has enabled itself

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Hi,

We've had broadband from BT for about a year, and it's worked pretty
well. Once you connect it stays on all day.

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?


Mine remains still remains connected til turned orf -so it must be your
system sumwhere.
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

On 24 Jan 2006 03:36:31 -0800, wrote:

Hi,

We've had broadband from BT for about a year, and it's worked pretty
well. Once you connect it stays on all day.

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?


If you have a router, then its usual that there is a config somewhere that
says 'disconnect on idle minutes' or something like that. Generally setting
that to 0, or unsetting a flag, sorts this.

If its a USB modem, then somewhere in te sof****re that controls it there
will be a similar setting.

If its being done by BT, god help you. Their support is completely
usesless.

BT Broadband Routers are cack, and start to disconnect for no reason.
May be a dodgy phone line, but unlikely.

I would go with either a setting, as other comments, or modem dying.

I swapped to a bought-in router, rather than the BT one for the same
problem & it has workied fine since then.
(my BT one was a small blueish black box, with abnout 3 green lights on
the front)

wrote:

Now (since yesterday morning) unless you do something on the pc every 2
mins or so, the connection drops.

Is there a general problem? If not, anyone any suggestions as to what
could be wrong, and what might work as a workaround or permenant cure.?

The screen saver or the firewall could be switching it off as could the
BT servers. Which got upgraded or messed with last?

Their patches tend to follow from the 2nd Tuesday in the month when M$
release their late latest.

I won't go near BT even changed the people who run the line because f
their abysmal service when I first went online. If you look at ISP
review's front page you might get the opinion that BT is the best but
look who have been voted 3rd.

Search around and the 3 they recommend are not ones you might have
heard of. No one else gets a worthy mention. Try them if you mind
paying for help. And also consider changing your line to another
company who might throw in a BB package to go with your rental.

Quite a few offer stuff for aboot £25 -£30 that includes line rental
and some free telephony. HomeCall do something like that for about
£27. It sounds a lot but compare the Platinum service for AOL without
the line rental and other offers. (I might have considered One-tel had
they not been related to Bloody Gits.)

http://simplyswitch.com/