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Index of Subjects Hi Sandra, Phone line interference, call waiting, bad connections or a number of other factors can cause the effect you describe. Internet transmission (including connecting to CCN) is all a matter of hisses, clicks, pops and screeches (the language of modems) and unfortunately, phone line noise, call waiting beeps, someone picking up an extension, telephone company work in your area etc...can all contribute to noises interpreted by the system to be legitmate characters typed on your keyboard. If one of those noises is interpreted as 'hang up', CCN will disconnect. Check all your phone line connections in your home. Blow dust out of any connections where the cords plug into the walls. Listen to your dial tone and then tap your hang up button to make your phone line quiet. Listen to see if you have a quiet line or if there is a lot of hum and static on your phone line once the dial tone is stopped. These all contribute to bad connections. To disable call waiting, add *70 to your dial up options in your modem setup. Also, ensure that no other programs start using your resources on your computer while you're online. Viruses, adware, spyware, malware all like to use the internet connection to send data back to their creators or to replicate by sending copies of themselves to names found in your email addressbook. Anti-virus programs set to autorun every now and then will temporarily disconnect your internet connection while scanning your system in the background. Firewalls have been known to knock people offline occasionally in their over protective zealousness. Our high speed project is proceeding but is still, probably, a couple of years away from getting up to the center of the city. I, too, am looking forward to it as I live near Windsor and North Streets. CCN Help ------------------------ On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, haycock wrote: > i am running windows xp on a pentium 4. it is about 5 years old. i > frequently am cut off while downloading (usually my e-mail... i use eudora} > the connection is broken and the error message is "connection closed by > foreign host." this happens almost daily. any idea what might be the > problem?
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