From: "Robert G Lewis" 

You might check under Tools , Options then connection to make sure the Hang
Up after sending and receiving is NOT checked.


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:42f00c0f{at}w3.nls.net...
> It's possible, I'll have to see if I can get anything out of the thing -
> I've installed a few very similar boxes (father-in-law, sister), and this
> is the first one where anything "happens", but it could be different
> firmware or something like that.
>
> Do you happen to know if there is a setting in Windows / OE / IE
> somewhere, to not pop up that question but simply automatically connect?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:42efe7f3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   Could your modem go offline during periods of activity and take longer
> to reestablish the connection than the timeout for detecting an offline
> connection?  If your modem contains a NAT check if it has logs that show
> the connection being dropped and/or reestablished or DHCP activity.
>
> Rich
>
>  "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:42efe085{at}w3.nls.net...
>  Argh, my home computer has started to ask me that "You are currentyl
> working
>  offline. Would you like to connect now?" question, right out of the blue.
>  Happens all the time now, when I'm using OE to read newsgroups, and
>  occasionally when I'm browsing the net.
>
>  Was there a setting buried somewhere and then hidden in a spell-check
>  dialogs help button or some such, to say "Always connect, you stupid
>  computer"? I'm on ADSL, so this bugs the crap out of me.
>
>  The only piece in the puzzle that has changed is my ADSL modem, which
> went
>  from A-link to Zyxel, but they should be pretty much the same so I don't
>  know if that could be the cause...?
>
>
>  Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
>

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