On Tuesday 03 August 2004 14:26, sjb wrote: <SNIP>
The connection was always solid as a rock before the update. I let YOU update itself, powered the PC down and went to bed .. when I turned the PC on the next day, the connection started dropping and it's been doing it ever since.
It *could* be a coincidence, but I wouldn't bet on it. No coincidence, I don't think... more people have had problems than just myself.
breaking really fast).
Hmm .. strange that we're seeing the same symptoms though.
Who's your ISP? I'm with BT in the UK.
I'm using a local ISP called Smartcom. They've been pretty dependable.
The behaviour I have described (above) is very erratic. Last Thursday/Friday I was having real troubles; since the weekend, the modem has gone down once ...and I did that purposefully.
Same here .. at the weekend the machine was on for 16 hours a day with no problems at all. Yesterday evening, it went down after an hour.
I'm baffled by it .. it's as if a kernel module dies or something. rchotplug shutdown fails to stop the modem .. trying to rmmod the driver just sets the CPU to 100% but the module doesn't unload.
Luckily, it doesn't happen so often that it's REALLY annoying, just mildy irritating ;-)
I find it annoying enough... but if I can live w/the problem for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks it seems to sort itself out for awhile. -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty