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09-17-2005, 11:17 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,549
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Connection timeouts
Scene: I log in to WF, finding overnight there have bee 500+ new posts, & while working my way through them, my line drops out. When I log back on, all the new posts have been marked as viewed & I might have 9 posts in new posts.
Could we have a timeout period of (say) 5 minutes where WF waits to log us off if we haven't actually clicked the Log Off button?
It can be most trying to have to visit every forum to work out which threads have been visited since I posted in them.
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09-18-2005, 12:01 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 5,240
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I've had the same problem several times.
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09-18-2005, 12:07 AM
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Mentor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Australia
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,279
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Same here. It happens all the time.
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09-18-2005, 07:30 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Tiny village in Dorset, UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,921
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I don't think this will be a problem from the UK. Mostly everyone now is on Digital Broadband, my connection is permanent 24 hours. My parents runs through their satellite dish that also gets the TV and phone through a digital box.
I thought Australia had the same thing. Why does your connection time out?
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09-18-2005, 09:44 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Back 'home' on Tinian!
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,445
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i don't rely on the 'new post' thing... i have all posts showing and just go by the posting date and time at the right, to see where to start working my way up the line [i go from bottom to top]... since i check every single morning, it's easy to see what's come in since the previous day's run...
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