AuntyM,

A little trick for you and other dialups out there. This is what I did before I got cable.

I would open up a second browser window and go to www.bloomberg.com . Since it automatically does a refresh every 60 seconds, I would never get the hangup warning. I also set my default to hangup after 20 minutes of inactivity there by ensuring it usually wouldn't happen. MSN would still boot me every now and then, but it worked most days. I would let that browser just run in the background.

Good luck.

Pitch and FFF,

I was with Excite @home and was down Sat/Sun, back up on Monday on ATTs new system. It wasn't a buyout, they were already building their own network and were ready to turn up WA for the most part. Speed is kind of a bummer. W/ @home, I was commonly running at 3,700kps (no, thats not a typo!!). Much higher than advertised. With ATT's new network, they state up to 1,500 (or 1.5, same diff) but www.dslreports.com shows me only at about 1,100, about 1/3rd the speed. Still better than dial or dsl but before it was unreal.

[ 12-07-2001: Message edited by: Saltine ]