> > If you are willing to pay that you can
> > stay online for as lomg as you want....
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I do. I'll admit it gets costly quickly. ;-)
>  
> I've never heard of people getting disconnected before though.
> I guess Swedish ISPs just have less subscriber/modem so contention
> ratio never became a big problem (apart from the occasional busy tone).

That is probably because they get a cut of the phone call charge.
So the longer you are online, the more money they get.  It doesn't
then really matter whether 1 customer on online all the time or
whether lots of people are online for a short time.
With fixed price connections they need to have a moderate
number of users per possible connection in order to make money.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk