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Old March 25th 10, 07:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Shane,

Odd, however I have to reiterate yet again that your chosen DNS server/s has
absolutely nothing to do with any stability/instability issues you might
have had with your connection. You can have a perfectly stable line and no
DNS server selected. All that is required is knowledge of the gateway and
the IP addresses of any site to which you wish to connect. Naturally having
DNS servers configured makes life a lot easier g but aren't required for a
stable connection. Of course, having broken, crippled or misconfigured DNS
servers leads to poor performance, lots of hangs and erratic speeds but the
connection between your PC to the exchange and then to your ISP's should
nevertheless remain as steady as a rock. That is until you perhaps switch
on the microwave or the streetlights come on or other users that to use
their systems and cross-talk in the cable bundle between you and the
exchange builds up.

If you think or know that your line is suffering from repeated
disconnections you might want to have a look at the private Be forum as Be
announced this week that they intend trialling SRA and are inviting
customers to sign up to participate in the tests. [SRA = Seamless Rate
Adaptation]

Mike


Shane facetious'r'.us wrote:

Mike,

Just to fill you in: my Be connection is remaining 'up' now. I
haven't done anything (beyond verifying that the DNS servers remained
the way I set them i.e. OpenDNS and *only* OpenDNS servers) but for
the last few days the connection has stayed viable no matter how long
I've left it unused. And just to reinterate (I'm sure I mentioned it
before) every time this has been a problem I've run the quiet line
test and it has been absolutely silent.
Shane