netgear wgr614v6 connection issue

I'm encountering an odd issue I've never seen before and am hoping someone
here can help me find a fix for the problem.
Our home network is connected to the internet using a netgear WGR614v6
router. My problem is that when I connect to an SSH shell or an FTP site,
and then walk away from the computer for whatever reason, a few minutes
later I'll return to finish what I was doing, and I'll find my connection
to whatever server I was on has been disconnected!
Further troubleshooting I've done to find out what's causing this issue has
revealed that if I make any kind of TCP connection to any server
whatsoever, after exactly 10 minutes of the connection being idle, the
connection closes with no warning. If I'm connected to an ssh session and
I'm doing commands, and need to step away for a few minutes, when I come
back, I expect the connection to still be there.
In the case of file transfers via ftp, the data connection will be active,
but the control connection will not be, so the connection after 10 minutes
gets dropped even though a download or upload may very well be occuring on
the data connection.
I don't like this feature of idle tcp connection automatically dropping
after 10 minutes of inactivity. Is there any way to disable this feature on
the netgear WGR614v6 router? I'd greatly appreciate anyones help on this
who can assist me.


p2pdude