Re: Automating mother

[Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Greenwood wrote:

> Sorry subject was poor attempt to keep on topic.
>
> I've got my mum an old iMac to go online and do emails and
> internet...all's well but she is using dial-up....
> Does anyone remember this?? It connects at 40k and seems so so slow!!
>
> However this would be fine for here except this morning modem
> disconnected about 4 times within 20mins. This is painful as it then
> needs to dial up again.
> When we used the same computer at our house it was fine on dial-up so
I
> suspect the phone line.
>
> Question what is phone number to run line test?
> Or can BT do better test from there end?
> Or will they be interested?
> Any suggestions....

Is it plugged directly into the phone socket or an extention first? If
the connection seems really slow, even for dialup, try connecting it
directly to the socket. I've found some modem/extention setups to be
less than happy.

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Calum Morrell
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