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Help me guys,. For the past week I have been getting kicked off the net if I stay idle for about a minute. Yes I have dial-up. The phone co. and my ISP say there is nothing wrong on their end. So I went and bought a new modem. My Dell is about a year old. I still have the same problem. As long as I am surfing and changing pages, everything is all right. If I stop to read an e-mail, or read something on the screen, after about a minute I an disconnected from the net. I have no problems getting back on, I just cant stay on.
I went to control panel to check and see if I had a time-out setting. I do but it was not checked to disconnect after"X" amout of minutes.
If its not the phone line, not the ISP,not the modem, Not my time-out settings, what on earth could it be?
P.S. I know nothing about computers so please make it simple.....

Thanks all
Too Tall