How To Set Length of Time Internet Stays On?

[nas6car]

If I am on the internet for 4 hours, it goes off.  How do I set the length of time that it stays on?  I have Windows 7.
Thanks!   

[2x3i5x]

question: do you have parental controls or something activated on your pc?

[rthompson80819]

What kind of internet connection do you have?  Is it something your ISP does?  Have you contacted your ISP?

Most broadband connections are on 24/7.

[nas6car]

   I am on dial-up.  No parental controls on.  Don't know if anything else is activated.  I am a dumby about computers.  Thanks.

[truenorth]

From long time ago (thank goodness) i remember this issue when i was on a 56k dial-up modem. Something that can cause your issue is 'line noise" on your telephone line. This is an issue related to the telephone line quality instead of something you can address with your own equipment. When i had it usually in early spring with water run-off and thawing ground conditions i was able to get my local telephone company to change their line connections (until after a few years they exhausted all those) and eventually they put in a new line from the junction box. Then came DSL and all that is now but a bad memory. However if you are having yours on a prescribed interval IE after exactly 4 hours as opposed to random then it probably is an issue with your ISP provider doing something. truenorth

[rthompson80819]

My first guess that if you are on dial up it is some thing your ISP is doing.  The way that dial up ISPs and broadband ISPs handle incoming traffic is very different, and broadband ISPs are usually designed to handle more traffic than dial up ISPs, so a dial up ISP may be more protective about it's lines than broadband ISPs.

First contact your provider and see if it their policy that is kicking you off.  If not it could be a phone line problem.

[nas6car]

  I thank everyone with the opinions.  I will contact my provider.