Re: How to stop disconnect from Internet

From: Jan Il (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:55:48 -0500

Hi Matt :-)

> 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?

No...I don't have dial-up...we have Verizon DSL. There is only one other
machine that uses the same hookup, and although they also have W2K, it does
not have the problem. I just newly installed the W2K a few days ago on an
added hard drive, and it does seem to happen mostly with my the newsreader,
Outlook Express. But, it does happen at times with the Internet as well.
Sometimes, when I go to open the Internet I get the 'Page cannot be
displayed' error. Generally, this is when the system has been idle for a
couple of hours or more.

However, just before I answering your reply, I was composing a rather long
e-mail, and when I went to check this newsgroup, I got the error, as well as
for the others I tried. Thus, I had to restart the machine.

This happens on and off during the day, depending on how long the machine
sits idle. I never leave it active with the Internet, I always close IE when
I'm not using it for a specific reason.

I have had problems trying to update some of my programs, such as SpyBot, Ad
and such, when they say they can't connect. But, as soon as I restart the
machine, they can connect with no problem.

I had Wine for several years, but, I did not experience this problem. I
thought perhaps that, not being familiar at all yet with the WOK, there was
some adjustment I needed to make to prevent this from happening.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance, I truly do appreciate it.
:-)

Jan :)

>
> 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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