Makes sense, yet is SO obnoxious...
Aug. 17th, 2002 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shirenomadUntil recently, I thought TUNET's dialup was just unstable, disconnecting me at random intervals. But I started to notice a pattern, so I started keeping track... The university dialup is deliberately cutting me off and making me reconnect after an hour's use.
Depending on how much use the system sees and how much it can handle, I can almost understand why. If someone needs to connect and all the lines are taken, it's not fair if the people online stay online for hours and hours... they've had their turn and it's time to get off. But notice I said IF. It's currently summer session, and as far as I can tell next to NO ONE is signing on (certainly not enough to clog the server; I've been able to reconnect fairly consistently after disconnects). Why don't they trigger the disconnect only if all the slots are full? That shouldn't be too hard to set up...
For the most part, the problem isn't fatal, and now that I know when to expect it, it's even less so. Still, it kills any chances of big downloads from home...
Depending on how much use the system sees and how much it can handle, I can almost understand why. If someone needs to connect and all the lines are taken, it's not fair if the people online stay online for hours and hours... they've had their turn and it's time to get off. But notice I said IF. It's currently summer session, and as far as I can tell next to NO ONE is signing on (certainly not enough to clog the server; I've been able to reconnect fairly consistently after disconnects). Why don't they trigger the disconnect only if all the slots are full? That shouldn't be too hard to set up...
For the most part, the problem isn't fatal, and now that I know when to expect it, it's even less so. Still, it kills any chances of big downloads from home...
