Re: How to stop disconnect from Internet

From: Matt Wagner [MSFT] (mattwag_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:36:35 -0800

Hi Jan:

I am not aware of a setting like this for ethernet connections, only
dial-up. Are you sure you are being disconnected from the your network?
  Does this behavior only occur in your newsgroup reader, or does it
occur for all your network-aware applications? Can you ping other
machines on your network? Is your internet gateway a using dial-up
connection? 

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Matt Wagner
Enterprise Engineering Center
Microsoft Corporation
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Jan Il wrote:
> Hi all :-)  W2K SP4
> 
> I recently installed the W2K on a new hard drive and all is working well,
> except that, when the machine has been sitting idle for a while, when I go
> to access a newsgroup I get an error dialog box that says an error has
> occurred.  It is the same type of box you get when you have not properly
> setup your server reference in an account for a group and it can't find any
> groups or that server.
> 
> However, when I restart the computer, the connection is good again and no
> error messages.  I was told that I need to disable the disconnect or some
> such for the ethernet so that it would not keep disconnecting when idle for
> a while, but, they could not remember how to do that.
> 
> I am totally new to W2K and all it's variables, and don't want to go
> venturing too much on my own just yet, thus, I would truly appreciate it if
> someone could tell me where I should look to  find the place for this
> adjustment, or if there is another means to do so.
> 
> Jan :)
> 
>

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