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Is there anyway to force a dial up connection to disconnect without using the PC?

PingSpike

PingSpike

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So I'm on dial up. I have a little software application I bought that allows me to use call waiting and automatically disconnect the dial up connection when some one calls in. This works great.

But...I would like to connect to the internet through my headless server, allowing it to download large files that take eons. However, my wife nor myself will like it if some one has to boot up a machine to disconnect the internet or attach a monitor to the server to click disconnect on the dial up connection.

So, is there a way that I can easily force the internet to disconnect. Right now it screeches in your ear when you pick up the handset...and I guess maybe if I muck with it I can make it crap out. That is not ideal IMO! Ideally I'd like to just pick up the phone and have it dump the connection, but that probably isn't possible.
 
a 2nd phone line or an alternate provider (ISDN, WISP, Mobile Broadband) are my only suggestions. is dial-up really your ONLY option?
 
I can feel his pain. We didn't get a land-based broadband option till September 2006. Many people don't realise that a LOT of the US is still without any means of broadband (aside from satellite.. and that's a fuckin nightmare. The 3 years we were on it made us reconsider dialup at times).
 
I don't really see a second phone line as a great option...if I was paying for one I'd probably want to shotgun it, and then I'd be right back where I started. The sharing of the phone line works well enough right now, I'm just looking to make it more seemless.

And no, I don't have any other ISP. Comcast ends 1.22 miles down the road and will extend their lines to me for a mere $26,000. I am about 4.5 miles from the CO switch, so DSL is not offered. I'm in former verizon territory...their landlines in this area were their unwanted children, and as such, they had done basically nothing with them up until the point they sold them off. There is some possibility some kind of DSL may be extended to me in the next couple of years, fairpoint plans to announce that this fall sometime. If they aren't sending it my way, I will probably get ISDN...the terminal adapters have this feature I'm looking for with my analog modem setup built into them.

And yeah....satellite has oppressive FAPs, latency much worse then dial up and often works like crap when its raining. I don't see myself paying $50+/mo for an internet connection that is basically worse then dial up in many respects!
 
Originally posted by: jlazzaro
do you have cellular service where you live? have you looked into mobile broadband?
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Cell is spotty where I am, mostly due to retarded town limits for building height and thus towers. It might be available though...however, they all have a 5GB/mo and I've heard mixed things about latency. I'm not sure who 5GB/mo is useful for, but its pretty clear they don't actually want you to use the service with a cap that retardedly low.
 
If your currently on dialup, even a 5gb cap would be better than what you have now, no? Also, take a look at millenicom.com, click their mobile broadband and look at their BYOD plan. No cap and no contract.
 
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