My computer has ADD.

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  1. Philly Phanboy

    Philly Phanboy LIVIN' LA VIDA PHANBOY

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    Can anybody suggest a fix for having my computer time-out almost every 30 seconds when I'm trying downloads?

    This is extremely annoying and I've had to install a download manager and basically click stop/resume every 30 seconds to do ANY downloads...try to imagine how many times I had to do that in order to download huge demos. :o

    Anyhow, I've gone through my router settings and there's no setting that would affect the timeout time. Where do I go from here? BTW,I'm running XP.
     
    #1 Philly Phanboy, Apr 3, 2006
  2. Asteroid-Man

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    right click ur background. go to properties. click screensaver. uncheck the "on resume, password protect" box
     
    #2 Asteroid-Man, Apr 13, 2006
  3. Scarlet spidey

    Scarlet spidey Old school

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    That's not the soloution to everything.:(
     
    #3 Scarlet spidey, Apr 13, 2006
  4. Darthphere

    Darthphere Kneel before 'Drox!

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    LOL! if only it was....
     
    #4 Darthphere, Apr 13, 2006
  5. Asteroid-Man

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    its the same problem. And maybe it is. it sure fits. last time u thought it didnt and it did. we'll see
     
    #5 Asteroid-Man, Apr 13, 2006
  6. Scarlet spidey

    Scarlet spidey Old school

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    It's not the same problem at all:(
     
    #6 Scarlet spidey, Apr 13, 2006
  7. Philly Phanboy

    Philly Phanboy LIVIN' LA VIDA PHANBOY

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    That's not what's causing my downloads to stop at 30 second intervals, but thanks.
     
    #7 Philly Phanboy, Apr 14, 2006
  8. jaguarr

    jaguarr Be Your Own Hero

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    Hmmm....could be a hardware problem with your modem or ethernet card (depending on how you connect to the 'net). Could also be a DNS timeout issue with your ISP as well.

    jag
     
    #8 jaguarr, Apr 14, 2006
  9. Scarlet spidey

    Scarlet spidey Old school

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    Is it only downloads that time out?
    Or does your internet stop loading pages for a few seconds once this happens?
     
    #9 Scarlet spidey, Apr 14, 2006
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