I uninstalled Netscape (HUGE MISTAKE) and now the computer will dial in…but won’t allow you to go on the internet using either Mozilla or IE…

Suggestions?? Before I burn it in epogee??

Now, even in most predominant storms I have a solid connection. Only one in a while will a storm destroy my connection. And the slowest it’s ever been has been more than 5x my old 26.4kbps connection. Even in the most highest times of usage it doesn’t give me much of a hassle. And connection sharing is nice, specially with my wireless router and my laptop. It’s like having a cable connection only no gaming and not near the speed. But I can watch youtube video’s without pausing for a half hour! And MP3’s download in less than a minute usually. I’m happy with it, and it really helped me with my online schooling as I don’t have to skip the video sessions!

Thanks again bud!

What kind of computer skills and career are you looking for? Also, I could not find anyone named “moitchelle” in the above comments. Did you mean Michelle instead?

Steve-O, thanks for the comment. I also agree with the idea of doing something I want to do, and not refraining from something simply because the majority of the population refrains from the same thing. If I want to stay connected 24×7, I am paying for it and I do not care if the other people stay connected 23×7, when it comes to thinking as to whether or not my action is justified.

The dialer itself adds a lot of bytes to kilobytes of data every minute or so, which can be a huge amount of data for many people on dial-up. How is your linux box working so far? How is your connection overall: better than before?

Stu, thanks for clarifying. How is your Emule running on dial-up? :p

Victor, thanks for coming and asking the question. If you remove the PeoplePc dialer software as mentioned above and try to connect to different servers, you might be able to connect to a server which will not disconnect you so soon. The windows dialer software can also be configured to dial in immediately in case of a disconnection, hopefully enabling a much faster reconnection than is possible with the PeoplePC software. That way, some programs that use the internet connection may simply assume that the incoming data is taking a while to come. Other programs will be able to resume faster too.

Are you still having the issue?

Steve Gentry, thanks for the comment. How is the connection going for you so far?

And as for the idea on thier disconnecting spree after 4 hours.. They say it’s because of thier users not using the internet more than an hour.. Like 95% percent doesn’t… Bullcrap, I pay for the service, I want it to stay on as long as I need it.

To everyone else, Stu is referring to CiDial by Aldensoft, a free program for Windows to automatically redial any number in order to stay connected.

What kind of peer to peer software do you use, if I may ask? Your solution sounds good, as if disconnection cannot be avoid, one can have a software automatically reconnect, immediately, causing probably only about 10-30 seconds of no connection in between sessions.

Thanks!

you may need to use this format in order to get connected the way previously described. Enter in your username box the following format:
isp#6username@peoplepc.com (where username is your username of course). Now, go and get a program that redials automatically on disconnect like CiDial and you’ll be all set. I use peer to peer software and can now stay online for days even though peoplepc disconnects me every 3hrs 50 min. CiDial automatically reconnects me and the downloads keep going. Automatically reconnecting using the networks connection method above didn’t work for me so I use this method. Flawless. Hope this helps someone and screw peoplepc!

Yes, when you sign up, they do not mention anything about automatic disconnect times. You are paying for “unlimited internet“, as they claim. You should get unlimited internet in return.

I do not know much about Windstream, but if you have an unlimited calling plan, won’t phone companies not do anything, in theory? I wonder if there are any stories online of people calling others too much, through landlines, and getting warnings or something from the company telling the customer/caller to keep the call volume or length of calls down, even if someone has an unlimited calling plan.

What you are asking is taking an action o deliberately send a message in mass numbers by actually using what you are paying for, and I love it. The bigger many companies get the more they ignore customers. Call PeoplePC support line and see if you can find anyone answering the phone in a happy voice; instead of a happy or a normal or serious tone, they have an angry-serious tone, as if you bothered them. It is as if they are doing you a favor. But of course, many other companies are like that too.

I wonder if phone companies will do anything, as you suggest and hope, regarding PeoplePC or other similar companies, since doing so may result in some legal action by PeoplePC against such phone companies [for the phone companies supporting angry ISP users]?