I think your friend should go through the obvious. like long phone extensions (ones that go behind stereo equipment, powerlines, etc). bad phone connections, is there interference or static on the line, cordless phone plugged in somewhere else in the house? a touch phone?
www.iinet.net.au used to have a good troubleshooting guide, in support section I believe. I highly doubt it's the ISP end, considering they are probably using rack-mount style digital access servers (digital to the exchange to achieve 56k for customers) James ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan Schotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Of Dodos and Penguins > I have a friend who is with Dodo, and he consistantly > experiences very slow and unreliable modem connections on the > Rockingham dialup pool. Could just be his telephone line of > course, but the number of times he sometimes has to redial is > scary itself. I guess you get what you pay for? > > > We're testing a new ISP - appropriately named dodo, not penguin, as > > iinet and westnet connection down here in Augusta is really sad. It > > seems like a good plan at $1 for first month ($9.90 normally), plus max > > $15 for additional downloads over 70 MB (to normal max of $23.90) plus > > 5 internet addresses, web site access etc. time will tell, as with most > > dodos! We're currently paying $40 / month with iinet. Does anyone have > > any experience with dododododododos? > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
