New Router - Is there a problem?

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My work laptop computer connects to my home XP machine through remote
desktop reliably every day. Rarely, if ever, is there a disconnect, even
when I don't use the RD connection for quite a while.

As we speak, I am in a hotel with my laptop and with a wired internet
connection. Yesterday, I purchased a Belkin F5D8236-4 router so that my
wife and I will have a wireless connection while we are here. The router
installed easily and it seems to work perfectly, except that when I
don't use the RD connection for 10 minutes or so, when I click back to
the tab, RD has to reconnect. It reconnects instantly every time. (I
don't know why automatically reconnect is not working.) Since I use the
computer directly to the internet, I don't perceive that I am having any
connectivity issues.

Is there a setting in the router that is causing me to drop my
continuous connection to my home computer? Is there something about RDP
that I can configure to solve the problem? The wired internet connection
is very solid and fast. I'm getting at least 5MB up and down.

I'm going to connect the laptop directly to the wired Ethernet port to
see if the problem continues, although I did use wired internet here
yesterday and did not have the problem.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
 
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My work laptop computer connects to my home XP machine through remote
desktop reliably every day. Rarely, if ever, is there a disconnect, even
when I don't use the RD connection for quite a while.

As we speak, I am in a hotel with my laptop and with a wired internet
connection. Yesterday, I purchased a Belkin F5D8236-4 router so that my
wife and I will have a wireless connection while we are here. The router
installed easily and it seems to work perfectly, except that when I
don't use the RD connection for 10 minutes or so, when I click back to
the tab, RD has to reconnect. It reconnects instantly every time. (I
don't know why automatically reconnect is not working.) Since I use the
computer directly to the internet, I don't perceive that I am having any
connectivity issues.

Is there a setting in the router that is causing me to drop my
continuous connection to my home computer? Is there something about RDP
that I can configure to solve the problem? The wired internet connection
is very solid and fast. I'm getting at least 5MB up and down.

I'm going to connect the laptop directly to the wired Ethernet port to
see if the problem continues, although I did use wired internet here
yesterday and did not have the problem.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.
 
No such options. The problem did not start until I got the new router.
The same host and the same remote computers have worked well for months.
I'm trying to understand what if anything in the router could cause RDP
to disconnect when nothing else does. Also, the host is set to
automatically reconnect if the connection is dropped, but it only
reconnects after I click on the program tab. Maybe that part is normal.
 
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