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Earlier I posted this problem: Dell Insp 2500 w/ WinXP Home won't
download any info after machine sits unused 2-3 hours. Oned suggestion
was being blocked by Zonealarm. ZA doesn't indicate network activity
halted. I even shut down ZA with no effect.

What happens when I try to reconnect to web after idle time is that
maybe as much as one web page will load (possibly frfom cache?) then no
more data flow is shown on status screen.

Still looking for a solution short of rebooting each time this comes
up. Please give me another suggestion

"SmokeyJose" <> wrote in
news: ups.com:

> Earlier I posted this problem: Dell Insp 2500 w/ WinXP Home
> won't download any info after machine sits unused 2-3
> hours. Oned suggestion was being blocked by Zonealarm. ZA
> doesn't indicate network activity halted. I even shut down
> ZA with no effect.
>
> What happens when I try to reconnect to web after idle time
> is that maybe as much as one web page will load (possibly
> frfom cache?) then no more data flow is shown on status
> screen.
>
> Still looking for a solution short of rebooting each time
> this comes up. Please give me another suggestion
>
>

What type of connection do you have? Are you on AOL? Don't they
disconnect you (like many dial-up providers also do) after a
certain amount of inactivity? They don't want you taking up
their bandwidth/line with nothing - not unreasonable. People
used to install a program that would ping the ISP every few
minutes so they would not get disconnected.

thanatoid <> said in news:Xns980ACB488EF2Athanexit@
66.250.146.158:

> "SmokeyJose" <> wrote in
> news: ups.com:
>
>> Earlier I posted this problem: Dell Insp 2500 w/ WinXP Home
>> won't download any info after machine sits unused 2-3
>> hours. Oned suggestion was being blocked by Zonealarm. ZA
>> doesn't indicate network activity halted. I even shut down
>> ZA with no effect.
>>
>> What happens when I try to reconnect to web after idle time
>> is that maybe as much as one web page will load (possibly
>> frfom cache?) then no more data flow is shown on status
>> screen.
>>
>> Still looking for a solution short of rebooting each time
>> this comes up. Please give me another suggestion
>>
>>
>
> What type of connection do you have? Are you on AOL? Don't they
> disconnect you (like many dial-up providers also do) after a
> certain amount of inactivity? They don't want you taking up
> their bandwidth/line with nothing - not unreasonable. People
> used to install a program that would ping the ISP every few
> minutes so they would not get disconnected.

If you read his headers, you can see the stupid **** uses AOL. Why do you
think his posting through the next bane of Usenet, Google? They used to
just kick you off after so many minutes of inactivity. As ****ed up as
AOL's software is, maybe their not kicking him off (or he is kicked off and
the AOL software is locked up some how) and that's why Smokingpole has to
reboot to reconnect. Here is a suggestion, Smokingpole, log off after
you're through downloading your kiddie pr0n.

Jerry Attic <0m> wrote in
news:Xns980B175D16955icantwank@217.22.228.20:

> thanatoid <> said in
> news:Xns980ACB488EF2Athanexit@ 66.250.146.158:
>
>> "SmokeyJose" <> wrote in
>> news: ups.com:
>>
>>> Earlier I posted this problem: Dell Insp 2500 w/ WinXP
>>> Home won't download any info after machine sits unused
>>> 2-3 hours. Oned suggestion was being blocked by
>>> Zonealarm. ZA doesn't indicate network activity halted. I
>>> even shut down ZA with no effect.
>>>
>>> What happens when I try to reconnect to web after idle
>>> time is that maybe as much as one web page will load
>>> (possibly frfom cache?) then no more data flow is shown
>>> on status screen.
>>>
>>> Still looking for a solution short of rebooting each time
>>> this comes up. Please give me another suggestion
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What type of connection do you have? Are you on AOL? Don't
>> they disconnect you (like many dial-up providers also do)
>> after a certain amount of inactivity? They don't want you
>> taking up their bandwidth/line with nothing - not
>> unreasonable. People used to install a program that would
>> ping the ISP every few minutes so they would not get
>> disconnected.
>
> If you read his headers, you can see the stupid **** uses
> AOL. Why do you think his posting through the next bane of
> Usenet, Google? They used to just kick you off after so
> many minutes of inactivity. As ****ed up as AOL's software
> is, maybe their not kicking him off (or he is kicked off
> and the AOL software is locked up some how) and that's why
> Smokingpole has to reboot to reconnect. Here is a
> suggestion, Smokingpole, log off after you're through
> downloading your kiddie pr0n.
>

I read the headers, it was a rhetorical/draw-attention-to q.
since he seems fairly clueless.
GG bane of Usenet, I agree. IMO they have joined M$ and Adobe in
the Triumvirate of Evil.

(When it was the ORIGINAL archive they bought out and things
were still kind of "new" (like 20 years new) it seemed like a
cute idea. Now it sounds like Stalin's ghost is alive and well
in California. INSANE.)

IOW, enjoyed your follow-up.

I'm using Netscape ISP which doesn't disconnect me as many AOL users
have complained. I've got the best dial up service here that I've ever
had. But this problem also happened with a local ISP so long agho that
I don't recall thed solution. That's the problem.

Yeah, I know Netscape is the bastard child of AOL. Or maybe the other
way around

On 2006-07-26, SmokeyJose <> wrote:
>
> I'm using Netscape ISP which doesn't disconnect me as many AOL users
> have complained. I've got the best dial up service here that I've ever
> had. But this problem also happened with a local ISP so long agho that
> I don't recall thed solution. That's the problem.
>
> Yeah, I know Netscape is the bastard child of AOL. Or maybe the other
> way around

Now no-one who isn't using Google Groups has any idea what you are talking
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In article <. com>,
says...
> Earlier I posted this problem: Dell Insp 2500 w/ WinXP Home won't
> download any info after machine sits unused 2-3 hours. Oned suggestion
> was being blocked by Zonealarm. ZA doesn't indicate network activity
> halted. I even shut down ZA with no effect.
>
> What happens when I try to reconnect to web after idle time is that
> maybe as much as one web page will load (possibly frfom cache?) then no
> more data flow is shown on status screen.
>
> Still looking for a solution short of rebooting each time this comes
> up. Please give me another suggestion


In article <. com>,
says...
>
> I'm using Netscape ISP which doesn't disconnect me as many AOL users
> have complained. I've got the best dial up service here that I've ever
> had. But this problem also happened with a local ISP so long agho that
> I don't recall thed solution. That's the problem.
>

Details, please? When you try to "reconnect to web after idle time" does
the computer indicate it is still connected (icon in systray)? Do you try
to reconnect by browsing to a different page, or had you already closed
the browser and have to open it again?

Does "no data flowing" mean absolutely none, or very little before it
stops, or only flowing out but not flowing in? When the problem happened
a few years ago, was it on this same computer?

What modem are you using? When you leave the computer idle for 2-3 hours,
does it hibernate?