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Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:31:38 PDT7
From:	Zdenek Jizba <jizba@verizon.net >
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Steven Levine wrote:

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> In <3F084830.3752597A@verizon.net>, on 07/06/03
> at 09:02 AM, Zdenek Jizba said:
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> > Anyway, thanks Steve and Peter for your help.
> >I have a feeling that this is not over yet.
>
> It's probably not. To give you a feeling of the pieces involved, here's
> what happens when you make a dialup connection to an ISP. Your dial-in
> phone number connects you to a Point of Presence (POP). The POP has the
> ability to answer the phone and get you logged in and route your traffic
> into the ISPs infrastructure and out to the Internet. The physical
> connection to the POP stays active for the duration of the phone call. In
> general, there's no way to know what piece of the ISPs infrastructure or
> POP a particular number might connect you to. What you can see is that in
> your case, you are probably getting connected to different POPs and this
> is at least one of the things that's causing the variations in what works
> and what does not.
>
> FWIW, Earthlink has never given me any real problems, but this is a YMMV.
> There are those that hate Earthlink. What I do to resolve any problems
> that do come up is keep track of all the local numbers Earthlink provides.
> If something stops working correctly, I'll try a some of the different
> numbers. If the problem was specific to a POP and I manage to connect to
> a different POP, then I've found a solution. Eventually whatever problem
> the original POP had will get resolved, usually by the next time I
> dial-in.
>
> Steven

Your explanation is fascinating, thanks. I did submit that "what if?"
comment to the alt.astronomy newsgroup and got back some
vitriolic responses including a demand to quit the group. I was
glad to see these because they gave me a chance to expand on
the points I wanted to make (That is exactly what the "what if"
proposition was intended to produce).

Denny

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