Posted October 3, 200717 yr My problem is that the idle disconnect feature does not work for me under Vista Premium. I get traffic every so often from the internet, and that seems to reset the timeout. If I go into the "network connections folder" -> "properties" on my modem connection -> "options tab" ... I can see a box labeled "idle threshold" but it is greyed out. Ideally I would like to find a idle timeout that is after the firewall has processed the traffic, so that external traffic that is blocked would not be counted. or I would like to know what I need to do to un-grey that box and then be able to set the threshold higher. Ideas please. Other Information: My idle timeout is set to 5 minutes. Watching the status of the connection for 10 minutes, I see nothing outgoing, about 5000 bytes incoming. I am using an external USRobotics 56K model 325686-03 modem connected to a serial port. I have current drivers for the modem from USR, and current firmware in it. I am using this older modem because it can retain a connection for a longer time than an newer internal one when doing a long download. Of course then, I have the problem of getting it to disconnect <smile> I have tried setting the timeout in Internet Explorer to the same value.
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