On Wed, 2 May 2001, mjn wrote:

> Yea.  Murphy's kicks in when you are downloading a Linux image and the
> phone rings and your DSL modem mysteriously drops its connection.  Every
> time the phone rings...

I've experienced this too, but the line usually comes back in a few
seconds. Sometimes by ssh sessions drop permanently though. Are you using
the filters? I'm not because they seemed to introduce an echo into my
regular voice calls. I should do an experiment to see if they prevent the
drops.

-Tim

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