Fun with modems!

[giza]

For those who don't know, I am currently on dialup. The place where I work has a fractional (12x64kbps channels) T1, and I don't do much at home other than e-mail and chatting with friends, so dialup is plenty fine for me.

That being the case, I configure my modem with great care, so as to not have sporadic line noise cause problems with my sessions. I actually went to the US Robotics website and downloaded their PDF that had all of the AT commands for their modems so I could write my own init string.


And here's the proof:

Sep 17 19:41:00 dmuth pppd[26931]: Serial connection established.
Sep 17 19:41:00 dmuth pppd[26931]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 17 19:41:00 dmuth pppd[26931]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Sep 17 19:41:05 dmuth pppd[26931]: local  IP address 199.234.243.66
Sep 17 19:41:05 dmuth pppd[26931]: remote IP address 199.234.240.69
Sep 17 19:41:05 dmuth pppd[26931]: primary   DNS address 199.234.240.5
Sep 17 19:41:05 dmuth pppd[26931]: secondary DNS address 199.234.240.6
[snip]
Nov  3 11:18:37 dmuth pppd[26931]: Terminating on signal 15.
Nov  3 11:18:37 dmuth pppd[26931]: Connection terminated.
Nov  3 11:18:37 dmuth pppd[26931]: Connect time 67237.7 minutes.
Nov  3 11:18:37 dmuth pppd[26931]: Sent 105881456 bytes, received 385050116 bytes.

Yes, that's roughly 46 and a half DAYS that I kept my modem online without being disconnected. Amazingly enough, my ISP never questioned me about that. However, when I called the phone company in December with a question about my bill, they must have noticed, as the lady on the other end of the phone said, "um... I see you like to talk on the phone a lot?". Well, I don't, but my modem sure does! :-)

Comments

Wow!

[idigull.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is truly impressive my friend!