- disconnect
- Posted by Graham Burr on May 28th, 2004
Hi Fo.ks,
My mother has windows xp and her Isp is pay as you go through dell .
She went and left it on for about 18 hours this is going to cost her a lot
!!!!!!!.
Is there a way she can set it up so that it will disconnect after a few
hours .
Grateful for any help
Graham
- Posted by °Mike° on May 29th, 2004
Use a DUN manager:
http://www.magsys.co.uk/dunman/
On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:57:35 +0100, in
<c98fss$oug$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>
Graham Burr scrawled:
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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html
- Posted by Hywel on May 29th, 2004
In article <c98fss$oug$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Graham Burr says...
Start > Connect To > Properties > Options
Set "Idle time before hanging up" to something sensible. If she leaves
her email client open, checking for mail every ten minutes, set the idle
timeout to 9. Also tell her to be more careful - common sense is the
best defence.
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- Posted by John on May 29th, 2004
In article <MPG.1b225b17dfdf6ae3989733@news.individual.net> , Hywel
<hyweljenkins@hotmail.com> wrote:
I suspect you meant eleven minutes in this example, so it won't connect
any more when the mail program isn't running.
I suggest setting the mail client to check no more often than she is
prepared to read and reply to those messages. For many people, that
might be once a day. No point having it automatically connect and check
more than that, and you want to avoid it if you are paying for
connection time!
- Posted by Hywel on May 29th, 2004
In article <290520040508040510%mixedmessages@earth.invalid> , John
says...
Yes.
No. I said precisely what I meant: if the mail client checks every 10
minutes, and there's no other activity, the line will disconnect after
9. Those figures were simply to illustrate the point.
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