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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:53:32 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Setup.exe
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Fred,

At 10:39 2003-01-08, Fred_Smith AT computrition DOT com wrote:

>...
>
>I'll leap in here too...
>
>If Windoze is smart enough to autodial when some program wants to use the
>internet it then should be smart enough to notice that the connection has
>gone idle and do an idle time-out for hanging up. If not, then its broken.

I can speak only about Windows 2000, but you certainly can configure an 
idle time-out (hang-up) if you want. You can independently configure it to 
re-dial if the connection is dropped by the remote side.

My preferred configuration is to set a 5-minute idle disconnect, 
auto-redial on remote drop and check my mail every 5 minutes to keep the 
connection alive.

The only problem I have is that the auto-dial option (which is a 
system-wide or user-wide option set in the "Network and Dial-Up 
Connections" sub-folder of the Control Panels folder) sporadically turns it 
self off. More precisely, the system "spontaneously" (i.e., in response to 
some occurrence that is unknown to me and for which a pattern of occurrence 
cannot be discerned) enables the "Disable autodial for the current session 
(until I log off)" option in the "Dial-up Preferences" dialog. It's very 
annoying.


>...
>
>F


Randall Schulz 


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