Open Announcements
Modem Drivers
Richard Gamberg's Modem
Troublshooter Page Please use that page as an initial first step!
Those of you having dialup modem connectivity problems - disconnects
(other than the 10 Minute Idle Timeout, see below),
difficulty connecting, or disappointing speeds -- You MAY find relief by
updating your modem driver IF your modem is hardware
controller-less:
Winmodems, Soft Modems, HSP Modems, AMR Modems, many USB modems - includes
Rockwell/Conexant HCF, HSF, Soft56, Lucent/Agere 'LT', AMR, Scorpio,
Mars, Apollo; Motorola; PCTel; BCM; IntelHaM, etc.
However, please go read this
web page before you go updating your modem driver. There are lots of
information that can help you and your dialup modem out.
drop.io for Quick Transfers of Large Files
FlexGmail limits email attachments to 500K bytes TOTAL. If you want to send over large files,
use Drop.io instead. Pretty good. Recommended.
Continental U.S. Keepalives
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Here are the dialup session limits for all Continental U.S. dialups:
- To keep your modem session from getting killed due to inactivity, go to this link: http://www.flex.com/refresh. Then, minimize the browser window. |
News Server Authentications
All flexnet users who wish to access our news server (news.flex.com) MUST now login. For example if your username is "someuser",
you will need to login as "someuser@flex.com", and use your regular flexnet password. This parallels the modem user login changes
and is our way to make things uniform across all our services.
Webpage Form Mailers
For those who wish to do FORM MAIL, please know that we now have a walk-thru
(complete with an actual working example) of how to set one up on your
web page. Go to Flex FormMail.





