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internet sort of times out
Posted by marlinspike on August 3rd, 2003


Hello,
If I leave my laptop for a bit while it's downloading something (not
if I'm downloading something in the Windows update kinda thing, but just a
regular download). After a while, the internet connection stays connected
but stops working. None of my other computers do this. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Richard


Posted by Peter T. Breuer on August 3rd, 2003


marlinspike <marlinspike@erols.nospam.com> wrote:
Use a different NIC. Or train your other computers to do it too.

Peter

Posted by Peter T. Breuer on August 3rd, 2003


marlinspike <marlinspike@erols.nospam.com> wrote:


(top posting corrected)


From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (07Oct99) [foldoc]:

NIC

1. <networking> {Network Information Center}.

2. <hardware> {Network Interface Card}.

(1996-02-13)


Peter


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