Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:03:03 12/06/99
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On December 06, 1999 at 08:01:20, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 05, 1999 at 21:11:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >> >> >>From my experience, rebooting is so common.. :) My wife boots, connects to >>her ISP, gets a disconnect, and can't reconnect until she reboots. Disgusts >>her when I just keep working and let my ppp connection automatically re- >>connect after a failure with no action on my part... and certainly no re- >>booting... > >I use Win98 SE (my results with Win95 and Win98 were the same), and getting >disconnected from my ISP isn't uncommon due to the erratic quality of phone >lines here in Rio de Janeiro. I have never had to reboot my computer in order to >reconnect, and the reconnection will be done automatically on a number of >levels: I was in the middle of a file download, I access a different web page, >etc... I could configure it to reconnect at ALL times if I wished but do not >choose to do so. > > Albert Silver What my wife gets is "windows was unable to negotatiate a compatible set of network parameters". Rebooting clears it. It doesn't happen _every_ time she disconnects, but it happens in at least 75% of the cases. I would much prefer NT, which is much more reliable (we are running NT on all our student machines (except for SGI/SUN hardware of course). It seems to run pretty well although there are quirks in the network stuff... But my wife uses some software that won't run under NT so it isn't an option on my home box...
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