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My modem won’t detect a dial tone. Have tried about everything. Any ideas?

Our transformer was struck by lightning the other night and blew out the electricity on the whole block. Neither computer would connect at first, but my fiance got his going, but mine is still down. I’ve tried reinstalling the modem and dialup networking. I’ve redone my connection. I’ve tried a new cable, a different phone jack, a different line, and even a different modem, which when I turned it on after putting the new modem in, a big white box came up saying I must reinstall windows, which I did. Still no dial tone.

How can I make my dialup modem under linux not disconnect itself when under a heavy load, such as downloading?

Whenever I try to do something like downloading any decent-sized file(that would take over 2 minutes or so), my modem just disconnects. I think our phone lines are messed up in the first place(lightning zapped our house), but do I really have to be unable to download anything without babysitting it and resetting the connection every 2 minutes? Our windows computer seems to handle loads “okay” with the same line, but neither my laptop with a PCMCIA modem nor my desktop with a winmodem can seem to handle the stress.

Thanks!

My modem won’t detect a dial tone. Have tried about everything. Any ideas?

Our transformer was struck by lightning the other night and blew out the electricity on the whole block. Neither computer would connect at first, but my fiance got his going, but mine is still down. I’ve tried reinstalling the modem and dialup networking. I’ve redone my connection. I’ve tried a new cable, a different phone jack, a different line, and even a different modem, which when I turned it on after putting the new modem in, a big white box came up saying I must reinstall windows, which I did. Still no dial tone.

How can I make my dialup modem under linux not disconnect itself when under a heavy load, such as downloading?

Whenever I try to do something like downloading any decent-sized file(that would take over 2 minutes or so), my modem just disconnects. I think our phone lines are messed up in the first place(lightning zapped our house), but do I really have to be unable to download anything without babysitting it and resetting the connection every 2 minutes? Our windows computer seems to handle loads "okay" with the same line, but neither my laptop with a PCMCIA modem nor my desktop with a winmodem can seem to handle the stress.

Thanks!