Re: [TCLUG:18170] why disconnects?

[Amy Tanner <atebbe@real-time.com>]

Getting rid of your housemate might work. :P

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:20PM -0500, Ben Luey (lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu) wrote:
> My housemate and I share a modem line between our computers. If he leaves
> his computer connected and goes to sleep and I try to connect with my
> computer, I can't dial in and his connection stays up. There is no way to
> kill his connection short of going into his room and disconnecting his
> computer. Yet if I'm online and he tries to dial in, my connection dies
> and before it realizes it and redials, his computer has already dialed and
> connected. This hardly sems fair. Is there an option in ppp for not
> hanging up on line noise and just waiting it out? What causes a connection
> to disconnect?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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