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DSL timeouts

eth0_

Has anyone received the signup form for EsatBT's residential DSL?
Did you notice there is an idle time out every 30 mins and you are also disconnected ever 24 hrs?

Does this happen on the Eircom service as a matter of interest?

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Dustaz

nope, you can stay connected for as long as you like barring errors with eircom.

GHOST MGG

ive had no problems with eircom i stream 1mb line...no timeouts or errors....except that its financially ruining me...lol;)

Mountjoy Mugger

Hmm - this 30 second idle time is a bit worrying. I was thinking of packing in iStream in a few months and trying Esat's package out. Those ping times don't seem to matter to eircom.

eth0_

D'oh...that should have said 30 MINUTE

strat

caps !?
forced disconnections?!
idle timeouts?!

always-on flat rate my ass!

eth0_

Well....the time outs aren't so bad, I mean with a 4GB cap you're not going to be running any servers, and come on, it takes less than a second to reconnect!

glimmerman

yeah, but its that *critical* second.... the score is 3 flags all in the final minute... you're carrying the flag, seconds from glorious victory, all your team members have spawned back at the base and theres one opponent left.... you frag him with a lightning blast... HEADSHOT! .... his head disappears in pink spray as fragments rain down on your power armour.... keeping with tradition, you hurdle his lifeless (and headless) twitching body... the flag is in front of you! theres 1 SECOND to go!!!! you reach out for the gesture taunt button as you race towards the flag and.... D'OH!!!!

eth0_

Are you reading this properly? It times out after 30 mins of INACTIVITY. So if you're gaming you won't be affected

Mountjoy Mugger

But, but, but, Eth0_

It's supposed to be always on. EsatBT are acting the bollix doing this.

eth0_

Ah well. It doesn't particularly bother me. Tell this to someone who cares :P

glimmerman

Originally posted by eth0_
Are you reading this properly? It times out after 30 mins of INACTIVITY. So if you're gaming you won't be affected

But it DOES disconnect ... even if only once per day... I don't WANT to be disconnected ever.... (although eircom have effectively just "disconnected" me since I moved to Foxrock, where they promised the exchange was DSL enabled... turns out they were lying as they now say it ISN'T!! AAAARRRGGGHH!)

MagicBusDriver

If it does disconnect, Ring esat and complain. There is a piece of software that auto reconnects pppoa connections. Send me a pm with a email address and I will send it to you.

Mercury_Tilt

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eth0_

Originally posted by MagicBusDriver
If it does disconnect, Ring esat and complain. There is a piece of software that auto reconnects pppoa connections. Send me a pm with a email address and I will send it to you.

Why? They clearly state in the contract that it has an idle timeout.
A keep alive won't work. Of course they've thought of that. It's obvious.

Dustaz

Originally posted by glimmerman
But it DOES disconnect ... even if only once per day... I don't WANT to be disconnected ever.... (although eircom have effectively just "disconnected" me since I moved to Foxrock, where they promised the exchange was DSL enabled... turns out they were lying as they now say it ISN'T!! AAAARRRGGGHH!)

So what your saying is that when you did have dsl you used it every second of the day?

This timeout wouldnt bother me at all tbh.

glimmerman

I actually haven't tried Esat DSL, i-Stream was pretty reasonable service (at an unreasonable price), but I did get occasional disconnects which almost always seemed to happen in games. Prolly one disconnect a day wouldn't bother me at all either if thats all it was

For some reason i-Stream seemed to disconnect me often anytime I was uploading large files, and more than a few times in an hour while playing games... never did figure it out. Its hell on fast FPS games at times tho.

eth0_

Originally posted by Dustaz
So what your saying is that when you did have dsl you used it every second of the day?
.

Some people don't have lives outside the internet, remember? :P

Mercury_Tilt

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eth0_

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Your life interests me.

Its the fiestyness in you.

*blush*

Mercury_Tilt

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eth0_

*giggles*
a/s/l! heheh

Kali

We've an Eircom ADSL line here in work... I'd say about 3 times a day it goes down, for a period of 5-30 seconds (and sometimes up to 2minutes)... very very annoying, i've no idea what hte reason is, but its definitely not an idle-timeout, a problem with our router or anything else at our end for that matter..