Losing Net Connection When PC Goes Idle
 

I've got fiberoptic service here and my router is logged on with PPPoE. Not all the computers in the house have this happen and it only seems to happen with FTP and HTTP (My yahoo widgets that are grabbing info seem to stay conntected). Any idea what is causing this and how to correct it?

check power save settings

what kind of router?

Sounds like something on the ISP end.

A lot of ISP's will disconnect you if you are idle for 10-20 minutes. This is nothing new. The trick is to either have a router that keeps it 'live' or keep up something like outlook, gmail, or something checking e-mail every few minutes.

I've heard some routers do this as well, sending small packets to keep the connection live, but I do not have any direct experience.

If you have something (like e-mail) active, then it will show on the ISP end that you are still active, and not disconnect you.

:pimp

heh, if you are paying the prices one has to pay for fiber optic service, I'd be screaming bloody murder. Its a dedicated circuit, right? So the ISP has no right to throttle or time you out.

Change your settings so your computer doesn't go to sleep. That's the default, but it's useless.

Control panel/Display/Screen Saver/Power/System Standby/Never - System Hibernates/Never; Turn off hard disk/Never

I love Yahoo widgets.

happened to me a few months back, turned out i had some sort of virus that norton wasn't catching but i installed avg and it found it

power settings !!

TOmud

Well I've had it set to always on so it's not that.

I have a Yahoo widget pinging my Google account and that keep getting the info - it's just http and ftp that close out.

Also it's only this one machine, the others in the house are fine. Must be some weird virus issue as you say... I'll look into that.

could be the dns settings maybe