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I’m thinking this is a Yahoo server issue. I’ve heard this happen to people every 5 seconds. Yahoo tends to drop people for no reason, I call it one of the many ghosts inside their machine.
Now, there is a secret registry key called KeepAlive Interval, but I doubt it’d actually work against Yahoo’s connection drops. 😛
Although, I do find it weird that it started with v8.1.0.421. Did this happen immediately after installing it?
Actually, I first experienced this with the previous build. I installed the latest build hoping that it would fix the problem. Needless to say, it didn’t work.
If it were a server issue, wouldn’t we see more complaints about it?
Actually, for the last hour, Yahoo! Messenger has been disconnecting and reconnecting me every 5 to 10 minutes. So, I’d have to really think now that it is a Yahoo server issue.
I bet if you look at Yahoo! Answers – Home under the Yahoo! Messenger section, you may see something about it. =)
I’m not sure based on your last answers this will help or not. But, I’ll toss it out there as I don’t think it can hurt anything to try it. Since you just reinstalled the OS and may not have tweaked the way it was tweaked prior to your upgrade and subsequent downgrade.
There’s something called Power Save Polling thats a part of wireless. Right click on My Computer then choose Properties / Hardware/Device Manager click on the + sign to expand your network adapters and you should see your wireless card listed. Right click and choose Properties. Where it says Power Management – make sure it is OFF. Save and reboot.
This is a feature that lets your laptop “turn off” the signal to devices that have been idle. By turning it off it will no longer do this. The feature is designed to help save battery life. However, there are several threads that say if you’re getting disconnected every 5 or 10 minutes EXACTLY this is a possible cause.
My confidence in this solution dropped when you said your internet and WLM don’t appear to drop when your Yahoo does. And I agree, it is most likely a YH server issue that will resolve on it’s own, but in an effort to rule out some rogue system process it’s worth a try and like I said – it can’t really hurt anything – you can always re-enable it if you want to later. I know when my ISP drops my internet often appears ok just like it was….until I try to refresh the page or browse. And in general WLM reconnects faster than YH so perhaps you’re just seeing YH reconnect and not the others. I’m grasping at straws but will you please let me know if you decide to try it and if it by any chance helps at all?
-Doris-
No luck. When I view the Power Management configuration, it doesn’t actually give me the option to turn it off. It only has a checkbox to select default setting and a slider bar to select lowest to highest.
If this is in fact a Yahoo server issue, why aren’t more people experiencing it?
Uncheck Default and move the slider to Highest if you want to try the Power Save Polling (PSP).
Also…do you have Outlook set up to pull your emails on a time interval? If so does it correspond to the 10 minutes? And is your email by any chance YH?Do you have the server timeout set to 10 minutes in Outlook? I don’t know much about how Outlook works, but it’s possible theres a conflict in some setting there especially if your email happens to be YH and you’d be trying to access the same account in 2 different ways.
I know you’re not giving up til you find some kind of concrete answer on this one LOL! Were you able to test it from another computer using the same connection yet?
-Doris-
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