Getting tired of IE timing out while ICS is dialing? You can try
fiddling with some TCP registry keys if you like. I don’t recommend
this, because stretching out this timeout causes all bad connection
requests to take a longer time to abort. I think it is better simply
to hit the refresh button as soon as the dial-up is completed.
In Win98 the registry key that controls the connection time-out is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP\
MaxConnectRetries
The default is 3. This key specifies the number of times a connection
attempt (SYN) will be retransmitted before giving up. The initial
retransmission timeout is 3 seconds, and it is doubled each time up
to a maximum of 2 minutes. With the default of 3 connection retries,
the connection timeout is 3+6+12=21 seconds. If you change this key
to “4” then the timeout will be (do the math) 28 seconds. You can’t
change the retransmission timeout value, only the number of retries.