Hello Julian
Many thanks for a message of help, intelligence and support to a
question from a Miami user.
It's nice to see a mailing list used for what it is suppsed to be used
for.
On 24-Jul-01, you wrote:
>JA Hello Elliott,
>JA
>JA On Mon, Jul 23, 2001, at 11:46 PM, you wrote:
>JA
>JA> second properly-addressed attempt. (Oops, forgot to re-address it
>JA> to the list the first time, sent it to the ISP)
>JA> :)
>JA>
>JA> Hi, I'm new to the list and thought I'd edit and resend my last
>JA> help request
>JA> for my ISP to the list. Does anyone have any ideas I can pass on
>JA> to my ISP to make service smoother?
>JA>
>JA> --------
>JA>
>JA> Over the last year or more I've been noticing increasing
>JA> difficulty in maintaining a usable dialup connection with my
>JA> ISP's servers for browsing (and e-mail).
>JA>
>JA> Most times I don't actually lose the dialup connection, but I do
>JA> lose browsing connection to the servers in the middle of file
>JA> transfers, forcing me to manually disconnect and redial in order
>JA> to continue, sometimes multiple times within 5 minutes. With
>JA> e-mail this also forces me to wait for the e-mail server to drop
>JA> the previously started connection before retrying the message
>JA> downloads (getting duplicate mails up to the point that the
>JA> connection failed).
>JA>
>JA> Before their switch from another ISP server to their own servers
>JA> (and a while after) I rarely had these problems (including the
>JA> following).
>JA>
>JA> Another minor one which doesn't prevent me from using these
>JA> online services is more of a nuisance (because I have to close an
>JA> error message window). When I dialup, I get the message:
>JA>
>JA> "Your IP address could not be resolved, so Miami has to fall
>JA> back to
>JA> your IP address as your host name. Either your Internet
>JA> Service
>JA> Provider does not support reverse mapping of the SLIP/PPP
>JA> ports,
>JA> Or there is a problem with the DNS servers."
>JA>
>JA> I'm using Miami 3.2b, and the settings haven't changed (other
>JA> than the DNS numbers and our chosen dialup username when they
>JA> changed over) since starting internet
>JA> service with them.
>JA>
>JA> Elliott Olson on A1200 040/40
>JA>
>JA
>JA What you experienced is a common problem on your ISP's side,
>JA not on Miami's side. Remember, we have to work with various
>JA vagaries: our local telephone company for dialup service, with
>JA whom we can never trust that we will get or keep a connection,
>JA let alone a clean connection (bless their greedy little hearts);
>JA the servers our ISP uses (They use many, not just their own.)
>JA and the servers with which our ISP servers must connect to reach
>JA a URL. Now, presuming that your local phone company is not
>JA messing things up for you, there are always the computers used
>JA as servers which (especially if they are MS Windows NT) can
>JA easily foul up. And, of course, since each server must be able
>JA to contact other servers (computers), they depend on telephone
>JA lines also, and computers.
>JA
>JA All you can do when you see that error message is to hang up
>JA and dial again. Been there, done that.
>JA
>JA BTW, I am glad that Miami 3.2b is as complete as it is that
>JA it can properly detect such problems.
>JA
>JA Hope this helps.
>JA
>JA Julian.
>JA
>JA
>JA --------------------------------------------------------
>JA Author of "MSH Tutorial V. 3.0". Found on Aminet -- MSHTut30.lha
>JA
>JA Julian Aronowitz. Tel.: (718) 654-1681;
>JA E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>JA
>JA
>JA
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