Page 180 Setting Preferences for Your Co mmunicator
To select a connection type:
1. Tap the service field.
2. Tap Details.
3. Tap the Connection type pick list and select one of the following connection types:
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::: If you are not sure, try PPP; if that doesn’t work, ask your Internet Service Provider or your
System Administrator for the correct connection type.
Idle timeout
The Idle timeout setting d efines how long your commun icator waits before dropping the
connection with your ISP or dial-in server when you switch out of a TCP/IP application.
To set the Idle timeout:
1. Tap the Idle timeout pick list and select one of the following options:
2. Hold Option and press Return to finish.
PPP Point-to-Point prot ocol
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
Immediate Drops the connection to your ISP immediately when you switch to another
application.
1 minute Waits one minute for you to open another application before it drops the
connection.
2 minutes Waits two minutes.
3 minutes Waits three minutes.
Power Off Keeps your PPP or SLIP connection until you turn off your communicator (or
until it times out). See page 173 for information on the Auto-off d elay setting.
Select connection type