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PCI Modems, computer crashes & istream

BendiBus · 2003-07-27 21:01:07

I'm getting a little frustrated. Every time my poor old 'pooter crashes, my istream session doesn't disconnect. So when I reboot and try to logon I get rejected as I already have a session open on the Eircom side. I then have to phone 1550-555444 at seventy-odd cent per minute to ask some (to be fair helpful) support…

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27-07-2003 10:01pm

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BendiBus

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I'm getting a little frustrated. Every time my poor old 'pooter crashes, my istream session doesn't disconnect. So when I reboot and try to logon I get rejected as I already have a session open on the Eircom side.

I then have to phone 1550-555444 at seventy-odd cent per minute to ask some (to be fair helpful) support person to disconnect me at their end. Last months 1550 bill amounted to €6 purely to get this done twice (or possibly 3 times).

I have to acknowledge at this point the very helpful lady I spoke to today who said 'OK I'll call you back when its done', thus saving me a couple of yoyos.

Moral of story - don't use a PCI modem unless you have a really robust computer/OS.

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#2 27-07-2003 10:49pm
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i presume you are talking about adsl modems?

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#3 27-07-2003 10:57pm
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You presume correctly

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