Modem Connection Problems

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I'm having a problem with my dial-up connection. For some reason, my dial-up connection gets messed up every so often and then I can't connect to any internet content. It can get messed up in several ways. One, if someone on another computer in the house opens the phone line and attempts to dial out. Two, someone in the house picks up the phone line for longer than a few seconds. Then the third way in which the connection gets screwed up seems random, I can't explain it. Neither of the other two have happened but the connection still gets screwed up for some reason.

You might say, well that's no problem just redial your ISP and you're back on the net. Well, it's actually not that simple. For some reason, whenever the connection gets messed up, Internet Connect never realizes it and thinks it is still connected. So I have to tell it do disconnect myself. The real problem occurs when I then redial, my connection is still messed up in some manner and I still can't connect to any internet content. No matter how many times I disconnect an reconnect, my connections are screwed. The only solution is to restart and then reconnect to the net and everything is fine. I have tried logging out and back in, but the problem is still there, I must restart to get everything working again. Which is a real pain. When I am connected I share my connection among the several computers in the house.

I am thinking it must be some background process/daemon that is getting messed up and only gets reset when I restart. If I could figure out which one it is then I would have it restarted and not my whole machine. I'm just not sure which process I would need restarted, or if this is even the direction I should be going.
 
As for the third one that seems "random" - I might suggest that that's caused by call waiting. Try using another line to dial into your number while you're online ... if it drops out, there's your problem. You need to turn call waiting off if you intend to use the line for modem calls. You can also add a script that switches call waiting off before dialing your ISP, and back on again when you disconnect. Though this adds another ten seconds to the time taken to connect, at least you can still use call waiting on the line.

I don't really know what daemon could be getting messed up, though, or if there's any other way around it. I know there are devices you can get that go inline with your modem and prevent anything else from accessing that line while you're on, in fact some modems have this option built-in and can be activated with an AT command. Can't really remember what its called or how you activate it, though ...

Any ideas, guys?
 
It's not call waiting. Not possible, this line is a second line for net connections in the house. It has no options on it, it's just a basic line. No long distance, no call waiting. People just get a busy signal if they happen to call the second line while someone is on the net. So it must be something else.
 
I have the same problem here in Australia. My ISP will log me out after a certain interval but if I want to reconnect I need to restart the computer before firing up the modem and it will work. This has only been a problem since I switched to OS X, 10.1.5 but does not occur in OS 9! I do not know what the problem is - I just hope that OS 10.2 will fix it. Anybody's experience with that would be very helpful.
 
Originally posted by lmcher
I have the same problem here in Australia. My ISP will log me out after a certain interval but if I want to reconnect I need to restart the computer before firing up the modem and it will work. This has only been a problem since I switched to OS X, 10.1.5 but does not occur in OS 9! I do not know what the problem is - I just hope that OS 10.2 will fix it. Anybody's experience with that would be very helpful.
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I'm actually still running OS 10.1.4, so it's likely just a 10.1 problem. In addition to the above, like you stated. If I just do a regular disconnect and then try to reconnect later, my connections are messed up and I need to restart to have a good one. That's a regular disconnect too, not a forced disconnect done after someone else opens the line and messes up the connection.

I also had a problem in OS 10.0 regarding modem dialup connections. At that time, I would constantly get disconnected. Although, I could immediately hit reconnect after I was disconnected and eveything was fine. I didn't have to restart. Now, it doesn't want to recognize it needs to disconnect no matter what and the connection gets screwed up easily requiring a restart after each connect.

This is a common situation. I will connect to the internet and share my connection to the other computers in the house. I will leave the house and go somewhere while leaving my computer in screensaver mode or logging out requiring a password to access my computer. In the meantime, the connection will get screwed up by some random force and therefore the connection is not shared anymore. So someone else will sign on to the internet with another computer in the house and disconnect all while I'm gone. I pick up a phone extension when I get back and their is a dial tone on the line, no longer a connection. I go over to my mac, enter my password in the screensaver and the Internet Connect window shows that I'm still connected when there is no connection on that line, just a dial tone. So I press disconnect and it acts as if it disconnects, but has not really been connected for a long time. Now I must restart, cause if I just press connect it will go ahead and dialup the ISP, but the connection will be no good.
 
Just thought that I would let everyone know that I never found a solution to my problem under MacOS 10.1. I installed Jaguar last night though and the problem has pretty much been fixed. My connection will still get messed up after while of being connected, but now I can just tell "Internet Connect" to disconnect and then reconnect. Now I don't have to restart after each time the connection gets messed up. Now I just have to get PHP working again.
 
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