how can I stop this annoying habit

[farmer]

Just given up on Freeserve anytime cus it always shuts me off after a maximum of an hour and then the only way to get a reliable connection from any dial up is to shut down and restart the PC .
Signed up to Tesco anytime , which they swore should last 2 hours , then be easy to re connect straight away and continue . but it still plays the same old trick as freeserve .

Is there a bit off software somewhere installed by freeserve that is "clocking" me . them activating to screw my dial-up ability . if so how do I find it and get rid?

cheers
Ian

[FourWheelDrift]

It's done at the Freeserve ISP end.

YOu can get software which will automatically redial (faster than the Windows standard redial) but that's all you can do. Unless you get broadband (as little as £15 a month now) if you can get it.

[farmer]

If it's done at their end how come it screws up any Dial -up connection from then on , even to other ISPs and why am I still getting it with Tesco ?

[chris_w]

Freeserve is famously stubborn. Do a google on 'uninstall freeserve' etc and see what you find. Think I ended up downloading a piece of software specifically to remove Freeserve.

[nighthawk]

It'll be easier to re install windoze

Freeserve makes all kinds of nasty changes to the registry.

Go broad band for not much more outlay and have a nice 24/7 connection

[slinksport]

Silly question...

Is your modem USB?

W

[farmer]

Thanks very much fellas , I'll check it out and no it isn't usb it's a HSP micromodem 56 . cheers

[farmer]

any other ideas . still strugling

[warmfuzzies]

Well, I'm NTL dialup their s/ware does user end disconnect, So i create my own dialup and use that, it auto disconnects server end, my PC is told to automatically redail each time the line is dropped, hence it reconnects every two hours regardless.
Maybe make a seperate dialup account with the freeserve numbers. It may also be that the winsock file has been modified, try start run sfc /scannow and see if the system file checker repairs the DUN/winsock files.

thats all i can thinkof for now.

Kevin.

[meeja]

I have used (and still do when forced to use a dial-up) a freeserve account... .have never been disconnected, or chucked off... and have stayed connected for over 8 hours before now.

How is that then?

I configure the dial-up connection myself, rather than use any software of install CD.

[farmer]

meeja said:

I have used (and still do when forced to use a dial-up) a freeserve account... .have never been disconnected, or chucked off... and have stayed connected for over 8 hours before now. How is that then? I configure the dial-up connection myself, rather than use any software of install CD.

that can't have been "anytime", of course they won't chuck you off a pay as you go line .even my self configured dial ups, play up once my time is up !

cheers for the input though

[Pigeon]

Freeserve's unmetered dialup sucks donkey's balls. It used to chuck me off after a random time interval, sometimes only a few minutes. I cured this by adding "persist" to /etc/ppp/options but of course you need a real operating system to do this, not that microshite rubbish.

After I'd had the account a few months Freeserve blocked it, despite the fact that I hadn't done anything even remotely antisocial, and refused to tell me why. So I cancelled the account. I'd advise you to do the same...

[farmer]

Pigeon said:

Freeserve's unmetered dialup sucks donkey's balls. It used to chuck me off after a random time interval, sometimes only a few minutes. I cured this by adding "persist" to /etc/ppp/options but of course you need a real operating system to do this, not that microshite rubbish. After I'd had the account a few months Freeserve blocked it, despite the fact that I hadn't done anything even remotely antisocial, and refused to tell me why. So I cancelled the account. I'd advise you to do the same...

Sdun mate but the symptoms persist

[simpo two]

Sounds like you're unlucky Farmer. I got on fine with FS Anytime, but when I tried V21 I could hardly ever get connected. Yet a friend has exactly the same service and regularly runs up to his 6hrs/day max with no problems.

Eventually I went to Broadband:www.metronet.co.uk/adsl/paygo

Now I have 512Kb broadband for less than FS Anytime damp string!

Simpo says: Vote with your feet.

[farmer]

broadband not an option frustratingly