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Back in the OS 10.1 days, dial-up modem support was flakey. I often couldn't get Internet Connect to work on my Pismo PowerBook without convoluted coaxing, but a shareware program called PPP Monitor came to the rescue. Jaguar squashed the Internet Connect bug, but unhappily, with Panther 10.3.5, it seems to be back, albeit not with exactly the same symptoms.
For the first couple of days after a fresh restart, everything is fine. However, on about the third or fourth day, the system begins to be reluctant to connect with the modem, or if it does manage to launch the dial-up sequence, sometimes the connection goes foul with just a high pitched squeal. It's not a problem with my ISP. We have three other computers dialing up to this account, and the issue only has manifested on my 700 MHz iBook since running the OS 10.3.5 update.
I log on and off the Internet a dozen or so times a day, so this is not a trivial problem for me. I can usually batter my way on with repeated attempts, and I've found that opening the Network preference panel and using the Connect button on the Internet Connect dialog instead of the menu bar Connect menu command seems to yield better results, but it's hard to judge. It can take as long as five or six minutes to coax the machine to connect.
Restarting restores normalcy, but not for long (as I look fondly at my WallStreet PowerBook running OS 9.2.2 that gets daily use and hasn't been restarted for three months.
This glitch is a major pain in the nether regions. I've tried all the usual stuff, repairing permissions, running maintenance scripts, dumping caches. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd be glad to hear them. In the meantime, I'm sticking with OS 10.3.3 on the Pismo.
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I’m having the same problems on dialup with 10.3.5 on a 14” g3 900 i book, if it is any consolation. Hope to find a fix soon. Keep up the good work