Re: (PM) PM3 disconnect problems

Don Lashier (dl@newportnet.com)
Sat, 09 May 1998 13:43:56 -0700

On 5/8/98, at 11:15 PM, Tim Wilfong wrote:
>I've had problems with a small, but significant portion of our users
>dialing in and getting disconnected in the midle of transfers (no, not
>idle disconnects or anything obvious like that) -- the disconnects usually
>happen anywhere between 1 minute and 20 minutes after logging in. The
>reported cause is always User-Request, even though it is never a user
>request.

Are you aware of the early Win95 bug where the idle timeout looks
at kb and mouse activity rather than modem activity? This causes
a user-request disconnect usually 15 minutes (default setting)
into a transfer.

Don

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