Alan,
The problem may be due to your connection settings.
Right click your Internet Explorer desktop icon, then click 'properties',
then the 'connections' tab.
Highlight your preferred ISP in the window then click 'settings'.
Click the 'advanced' button on the Dial-up settings sub-panel.
Uncheck the 'disconnect if idle' option (or modify the time setting) then
click 'OK', 'OK' and 'apply' to exit out of properties.
Next, open Control Panel (start> control panel) and double click 'Phone and
modem options'. Click the 'modems' tab, highlight your preferred modem, then
click the 'properties' button.
On the properties panel click the 'advanced' tab, then the 'change default
preferences' button. Click the 'general' tab, and uncheck (or modify the
time setting) of the 'disconnect if idle' option. Click 'OK', 'OK', 'Apply'
and 'OK' to exit.
Of course, after doing that you may find your ISP just boots idle lines
after 'x' minutes inactivity, so use something like Windows, MSN or Yahoo
messenger to work as a surrogate auto-ping device to keep the line open.
Hope this helps,
Chek
That is usually a policy set by your ISP. Get more active?
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Just my ¢ worth
Jeff
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| when i am on the net after a time i get cut off becuase
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