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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes
Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 12:35 pm
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Posted by david (1 messages posted)

for anyone running windows XP with zone alarm pro who's internet connection dies 
after being idle for a while, try this:

for an immediate reconnection to internet, ping either the ip address of your router, 
or the internet name of a known website (for example ping www.google.com)
then restart your internet explorer or whatever internet programme you use.

for a long term workaround, go into zone alarm and enter an ip range in the trusted 
zone corresponding to the ip address of your router. for example if the ip address 
of your router is 192.168.1.2  then add the range 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255 to 
the trusted zone.  another example, if your router's ip address is x.x.x.5 the add 
the range x.x.x.1 - x.x.x.255 to the trusted zone.

thiis works for me. my SSID is hidden and i'm using WPA encryption and users can 
only log onto my router using the encryption code so i reckon i'm safe allowing such 
a big ip range to the trusted zone. 

good luck.

Written in response to:: re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Sreev: Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 9:55 pm)

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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (JTor: Monday, October 2, 2006 at 9:31 am)

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Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:13 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (GM: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 4:34 pm)

re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (B.C.: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 5:46 pm)

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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection' (Fred Malott: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 4:07 pm)

If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Lam Jam: Mon, Oct 18, 2004, 10:13 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Tom Borden: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 12:40 pm)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (vida: Wed, Feb 2, 2005, 6:28 pm)

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re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (Anthony: Wed, May 25, 2005, 6:13 am)

re: If your Internet Connections drops every few minutes (David: Wed, May 25, 2005, 7:14 am)

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