Hi there, if you are on BB all you get if the server is dropped is 'cannot find server' on the web page indicator! But from my days of dial up, I remember that message only all to well!
Happened a lot too often in the oldern days, but thanks to bb thats not the case anymore for me now. May pay you to go the bb way! then you won't get it anymore, and you'l wonder how you managed before!