Lose of connection after five minutes

[BigJim]

When I am connected to the net via cable and I do not use the connect for
five minutes I loose connect.
A window pops up and I click on reconnect and I am back on. Is there a
setting to fix this or am I
going to have to live with it. BTW I use Comcast.

[$Bill]

BigJim wrote:
> When I am connected to the net via cable and I do not use the connect for
> five minutes I loose connect.
> A window pops up and I click on reconnect and I am back on. Is there a
> setting to fix this or am I
> going to have to live with it. BTW I use Comcast.

More info to start:

Config ? Simple line drawing of your setup.

Type of cable modem ?

Do you have a router in between ? Type ?

OS ?

[BigJim]

Motorola sb4200
d-link wireless router di 524 using wep and shared auth/
xp pro and vista and it does it with vista also.
vista is installed on a separate drive. I use a drive caddy
and change out the drives.
the funny thing is if I keep working the connection stays up. so I figure it
is in the router setup
somewhere but I can't find it.


"$Bill" <news@SPAMOLAtodbe.com> wrote in message
news:4741205a$0$32555$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> BigJim wrote:
>> When I am connected to the net via cable and I do not use the connect for
>> five minutes I loose connect.
>> A window pops up and I click on reconnect and I am back on. Is there a
>> setting to fix this or am I
>> going to have to live with it. BTW I use Comcast.
>
> More info to start:
>
> Config ? Simple line drawing of your setup.
>
> Type of cable modem ?
>
> Do you have a router in between ? Type ?
>
> OS ?
>
>

[$Bill]

BigJim wrote:
> Motorola sb4200
> d-link wireless router di 524 using wep and shared auth/
> xp pro and vista and it does it with vista also.
> vista is installed on a separate drive. I use a drive caddy
> and change out the drives.
> the funny thing is if I keep working the connection stays up. so I figure it
> is in the router setup
> somewhere but I can't find it.

The only thing that comes to mind would be power management turning the device
off due to non-use. Check here:

(XP Pro) CtrlPanel->NetworkConnections->(network that is connected)->
Properties->General->Configure->PowerManagement

and see if it's enabled and try disabling it.

If you have a firewall running, you could try bypassing the router for
a test to see if it makes a difference (I doubt it will, but it would
rule it in or out).

[BigJim]

thanks I will give it a try but I think the problem is in the router. Since
it does it with both wireless and hard connect.
Maybe a new router will fix the problem.

"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3ZednQ9E3fneh9zanZ2dnUVZ_s2tnZ2d@comcast.com...
> When I am connected to the net via cable and I do not use the connect for
> five minutes I loose connect.
> A window pops up and I click on reconnect and I am back on. Is there a
> setting to fix this or am I
> going to have to live with it. BTW I use Comcast.
>

[$Bill]

BigJim wrote:
> thanks I will give it a try but I think the problem is in the router. Since
> it does it with both wireless and hard connect.
> Maybe a new router will fix the problem.

Then bypass the router and see if it stays up. I don't know what settings
a Dlink has, so I can't help you there.

[student]

Also think it is the router. BUT when the connection is lost, just ujnplug
the power for the router, wait about 10-30 sec, then reconnect the
router power; this will let windows or whatever to continue with
just a temp loss of connection. This was something I had to do
with my netgear that kept "crashing" ever so often at unknown timeframes.

Bought a new router & haven't had a disconnect for over 1 week.

Have also switched from the opendns for dns as it seem to do a lookup
too often even when it was just access; it confused me a bit as to whether
the router crash or just opendns doing its thing.


On 2007-11-20, BigJim <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote:
> thanks I will give it a try but I think the problem is in the router. Since
> it does it with both wireless and hard connect.
> Maybe a new router will fix the problem.
>
> "BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3ZednQ9E3fneh9zanZ2dnUVZ_s2tnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> When I am connected to the net via cable and I do not use the connect for
>> five minutes I loose connect.
>> A window pops up and I click on reconnect and I am back on. Is there a
>> setting to fix this or am I
>> going to have to live with it. BTW I use Comcast.
>>
>
>