I've been having this strange problem with my dial-up modem, which is an ESS if anyone remembers ;-). It keeps going "dead", to explain it a bit more, when I download something, it doesn't matter if it's a webpage, or a file, or if I use wget, Firefox, or a GUI downloader, the download keeps stopping. My modem stops working. I don't disconnect, but my modem becomes completely inactive. Network monitors show the download and upload rates drop to 0.00 . After maybe 10-30 seconds, the modem comes alive like nothing happened and continues it's download, if the server I'm connected to hasn't kicked me off (and to my frustration, they often do, making file downloads and loading websites nearly impossible sometimes) I never had these problems on Windows, so it must be a linux related thing, but I have no idea if it's fixable, I sure have no idea what to do with it other than live with it. On WinXP my downloads were slow but steady. On Ubuntu it's a nightmare. I was downloading an 8mb file, and I had to restart it and resume at least half a dozen times. Three of those times were in the last 20kb of the file. I sure don't understand it. Has anyone else experienced this with their modems?
