Connection Timeout is a setting in IIS which asks the server to wait on an inactive connection before disconnecting it. You don’t want to waste memory resources on an idle connection and hence you should think twice before you make any changes to the default setting. I have seen number of times people increase Connection timeout setting in IIS 6 such that they don’t “connection timeout” when waiting for data on their Web page. You can use Performance Monitor to figure out what is the connection ... [More]