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I'm tossing in the towel, guys. Two or three weeks in a row that my ISP gives me crappy service during the day on weekends. My DSL modem looses synch and I get disco'd from the server. Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.]) I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections). All the best, -- Darryl

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>I'm tossing in the towel, guys. Two or three weeks in a row that my ISP >gives me crappy service during the day on weekends. My DSL modem looses >synch and I get disco'd from the server. > >Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not >watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for >me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating >him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in >everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.]) > >I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections). > >All the best,

You should contact your ISP and tell them of your connection problems. Make them give you the service that you're *paying* for, and you can keep racing... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 Hist. +82.34 N2k3 rank: -1.182 Slayer Spektera lvl 79 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 44 Necro US East

Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> wrote in news:GZIud.56307 $[email hidden]:

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> I'm tossing in the towel, guys. Two or three weeks in a row that my ISP > gives me crappy service during the day on weekends. My DSL modem looses > synch and I get disco'd from the server. > > Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not > watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for > me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating > him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in > everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.]) > > I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections). > > All the best,

Real shame Darryl - last night you looked fine - no warping or anything but you suddenly disappeared :( It doesn't sound very good went your modem looses sync - like Eldred said maybe they can check your line. There's stories about ground work somewhere else hitting a cable or something. cheers jurjen

JLe wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> wrote in news:GZIud.56307 > $[email hidden]: > >> I'm tossing in the towel, guys. Two or three weeks in a row that my ISP >> gives me crappy service during the day on weekends. My DSL modem looses >> synch and I get disco'd from the server. >> >> Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not >> watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for >> me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating

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>> him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in >> everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.]) >> >> I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections). >> >> All the best, > > Real shame Darryl - last night you looked fine - no warping or

anything but > you suddenly disappeared :( > It doesn't sound very good went your modem looses sync - like Eldred said > maybe they can check your line. There's stories about ground work somewhere > else hitting a cable or something. > > cheers jurjen > It's probably typical for tech support everywhere, but there are just horror stories about people calling for tech support from my ISP. Grade two drop-outs reading from a script. "First, we want you to re- install Windows...." I'll probably take a couple of Valium and call them one of these days, but the problem seems to be at its worst during the days on weekends. I can race at night with very few problems, and I'm afraid of some tech guy going into "fix" my lines and making it so I can't race at night either. -- Darryl

You might try running a clean phone line from the Phone Companies D-Mark to your modem to help eliminate inside wiring as the culprit. The Phone Co will only guarantee a 9.6k connection so they may or may not help ya. Mitch "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:GZIud.56307$[email hidden]...

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> I'm tossing in the towel, guys. Two or three weeks in a row that my ISP > gives me crappy service during the day on weekends. My DSL modem looses > synch and I get disco'd from the server. > > Sorry. I know you were looking to try to increase your fields, not > watch them decrease, but this is just an exercise in frustration for > me. (And now that Eldred has quit, I can't even take solace in beating > him. [Just kidding, Eldred. You were generally faster than me in > everything else, I imagine you'd beat me at NASCAR too.]) > > I hope you get some other new members -- with decent connections). > > All the best, > -- > Darryl

Mitch, I have, in fact, tried connecting the modem to the phone wires at the demarcation point. I even tried connecting the modem to the outside of the house, running my cat 5 wire through an open window and over to my computer. No luck. Essentially, the ISP raised our throughput rates from 1.5MB down to 3MB down, and ever since then I've noticed that the modem is more susceptible to losing synch. On the support forums, some people are recommending a newer modem, which they say is less prone to suffer phone line interference. Others say the newer modems are NOT as good as the older ones. Others say the getting the speed throttled back will help; and (of course) still others say that if they set the speed slower, it will be WAY slower than even the old 1.5 rate. Looks like there is a great potential to lose no matter which way I jump. For now, I', just gonig to give up on weekend, daytime racing. (My wife can usually find something for me to do, in any case, if I look like I'm just dragging my ass around the house. <grin>) Thanks for the thought, though. -- Darryl Mitch_A wrote in news:td%ud.41791$6q2.12819 @newssvr14.news.prodigy.com: > You might try running a clean phone line from the Phone Companies D-Mark to > your modem to help eliminate inside wiring as the culprit. The Phone Co > will only guarantee a 9.6k connection so they may or may not help ya. > > Mitch > >

"Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:BH%ud.1408$[email hidden]... > Mitch, > > I have, in fact, tried connecting the modem to the phone wires at the > demarcation point. I even tried connecting the modem to the outside > of the house, running my cat 5 wire through an open window and over > to my computer. No luck. We will keep you on the invite list of course, and you can show up whenever you'd like. Hope you can somehow get things straightened out . :-) -- David G Fisher

"Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:BH%ud.1408$[email hidden]... > Mitch, > > I have, in fact, tried connecting the modem to the phone wires at the > demarcation point. I even tried connecting the modem to the outside > of the house, running my cat 5 wire through an open window and over > to my computer. No luck. We will keep you on the invite list of course, and you can show up whenever you'd like. Hope you can somehow get things straightened out . :-) -- David G Fisher

"Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:BH%ud.1408$[email hidden]...

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> Mitch, > > I have, in fact, tried connecting the modem to the phone wires at the > demarcation point. I even tried connecting the modem to the outside > of the house, running my cat 5 wire through an open window and over > to my computer. No luck. > > Essentially, the ISP raised our throughput rates from 1.5MB down to > 3MB down, and ever since then I've noticed that the modem is more > susceptible to losing synch. On the support forums, some people are > recommending a newer modem, which they say is less prone to suffer > phone line interference. Others say the newer modems are NOT as good > as the older ones. Others say the getting the speed throttled back > will help; and (of course) still others say that if they set the > speed slower, it will be WAY slower than even the old 1.5 rate. > > Looks like there is a great potential to lose no matter which way I > jump. For now, I', just gonig to give up on weekend, daytime racing. > (My wife can usually find something for me to do, in any case, if I > look like I'm just dragging my ass around the house. <grin>) > > Thanks for the thought, though. > -- > Darryl

Sounds like you may have some kind of interference if it's happening at a given time. Something around the house on a timer maybe, or a bad street light somewhere on the block. Also try changing out your filters. James aka...bluestringer