Not trying to belittle anyone but at the end of the day, if jeanc1 wants to talk to the admin and come back, then that is for her to say or do. she is clearly not stupid, she doesn't need us to fight her battles for her
The_OGS, she requested her account be inactive which i did but she has to talk to admin about getting it active if she wants back as a mod can't unbanned a person, just ban them.
@djscoop You are correct in the fact that some DSL providers will kick you for inactivity. Many DSL modems are set up as a PPoE client, not as a bridged connection. If the PPoE client was on the PC then it would be a bridged connection, but many DSL modems have the client built in. Many DSL modems themselves have an inactivity timer built in or it can be set on the DSLAM (DSL ATM Multiplexer) at the phone company central office. For example, look at step 5 on http://www.usr.com/support/doc-popup-template.asp?url=faqs/dsl/ppp_inactivity/index.html I believe the US Robotics DSL modems come with a default timeout value of 15 minutes for inactivity but that can be set on the modem. It could be that Prodigy sends out their DSL modems set up that way and it could be changed by the user. On a Cisco 675 DSL modem the value is set in the command line. set timeout idle 300 would set an inactivity timer of 300 seconds and the DSL connection would drop after 5 minutes of inactivity. Those examples are on the client side. Depending on what equipment is in the DSLAM at the phone company office it can be disonnected from that end as well. For example on a Cisco 6100 DSLAM the idle timer disonnect has been a feature since v2.30 of the software running on the DSLAM. I have worked on both Nortel and Cisco DSLAMs in the phone company central offices and it is not hard at all to set up for idle timeout disconnection so your friend is probably right. @Jeanc1 Many newer DSL modems have routing functions built in so they can either be set to bridged mode or routed mode (acting as a PPoE client) but not both at the same time. Most I have seen are configured in routed mode since that way they can provide NAT or DHCP for the clients connected. You are right regarding the original poster, rogers is a cable company not DSL. I haven't worked on Cable systems, only DSLAMs and ATM routers so I don't know what options are available to the ISP regarding idle timeouts.
