>What we're going to do, later this week, is bring my laptop down to >her house, connect to Comcast with the laptop, access my AOL account >through her modem and see what happens. Reportedly her husband (PC >connected with a wireless router) never loses a signal, but her >computer does, regularly. Her computer is connected to the Comcast >modem via ethernet cable.
Is she connected directly to the Comcast box? It would be better if she were connected to a port on the wireless router because the router would do a better job of keeping the connection alive. >So the question becomes: Is it a Comcast problem? An AOL problem (she has >a paid account)? Or some other weird thing. Rule out AOL by using Safari to access non-AOL sites and then leaving it idle. Hard to believe that Comcast would enforce a floor as well as a cap. That would be excessively evil. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
