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[Adolph & Sharon Weidanz <timetopaws@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hey all...

I've run into a problem that is really driving me up the wall. Part of
the problem is I can't even think of what to search google with. Maybe
"my internet connection goes to never-never land"...

Here goes...

I have a Sierra wireless Aircard 860 on the Cingular HSDPA network. Ever
since they upgraded our area I run about 60 to 105 kBytes/sec on DL'ing.
The aircard is plugged into the laptop. The laptop does internet sharing
to the desktop over the network.. On the laptop after booting I just
click on kinternet and give it a few seconds to synch and then the
desktop has, in the past had no problems.

About a month or so I bought an Ipod. Which has worked flawlesly, and
the only reason I bring it up is that since I bought it I have become a
podcast addict (podcastaholic?). Between the tech ones (This week in
tech, dl.tv, and buzz outloud, just to name a few), the couple of Linux
ones, and to top it off a bunch of NPR ones, I figure I do about a gig
or two a week in podcasts. I use Amarok 1.45 to DL and manage the
'casts. Both machines run 10.1 with the laptop on KDE 3.5.6 and the
desktop on 3.5.5.

What happens is, and this is intermittent, I'll be downloading a 'cast
and the connection goes off to never-never land. I mean, from the
desktop I can ping the router, and the laptop but nothing outside. When
I ssh into the laptop and then do a ping to say google it does nothing
and will sit there until it times out with "unknown host
www.google.com". Nothing shows up in any of the logs I can find. The
green light showing that the card is still connected to cingular's
network is still on solid. I can "cinternet -v -i modem0 -O" to reset it
and then  "cinternet -v -i modem0 -A" to restart, I guess it would be
the "dial-up" session. Doing an ifconfig when it gets lost and after I
reset shows the same info.

I asked Cingular and they said point blank that the HSDPA (dataconnect I
think is it's name) is NOT capped or bandwidth shapped. These are some
major sites like CNet and NPR, as well as being diverse.

It does not happen when I am doing Smart upgrades or even running
azureus. In fact I DL'd a 3.5 gig music sample from the SXSW via
bit-torrent and, although it took a while, it never caused the the
connection to die. So other then it being Amarok I don't have a clue
what it could be. And if it is amarok, then any idea how it could be
doing it?

Thanks..

BTW.. I'll even take an RTFM if you name the manual ;^)

Also if there is a really good podcastcatcher I'd appreciate knowing
about. I tried BPConf/gPodder and didn't care for either.


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we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public.? [Theodore Roosevelt] 1918

Adolph & Sharon Weidanz                             SuSE 10.1
'78 43' Endeavour Ketch                         Folding@Home Team 45
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