As a rule, I wouldn't trust the ISP. They might have set up their system to
cut you off after 5 hours, and not tell you about it. Worse then that, they
might even not know that this setting exists on their system...
I would try another ISP, and check whether this situation repeats.
Best of luck,

Reuven Freuman

> Ladies and gents, I need all of you to put on your thinking caps and help
me
> solve this problem.
>
> I get knocked off line after I have been on exactly 5 hours, and then
exactly 5
> hours after that.  A person at the telephone company has been helping me
and did
> extensive testing and says it's not the phone line.  My ISP insists that
they
> have nothing that would be causing it.  So now I'm assuming it's a setting
> somewhere on my computer.  I have searched everywhere and can't find
anything
> that would be causing it.  Any ideas anyone???
>
> I've ruled out Control Panel/Internet/Connections/Dialup
Settings/Advanced.
> There are two check boxes there that you can set to make it disconnect but
> neither of them are checked.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Linda Aldridge
>
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        programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column.
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