Terminal equipment and the connection method

Disclosed is an object to provide a mobile terminal and its connection method makes it possible to suppress the upper limit of the time required for a process of performing a plurality of times of communication. A portable terminal according to the present invention (2) is a portable terminal connectable to a server (8) via a wireless LAN access point (3) and at least one gateway (4), the access point and a communication unit that communicates with the gateway (21), by performing a gateway and a plurality of times of communication, processing unit for establishing a communication path at the gateway and (251), time counting unit for counting a time (252), the a processing unit, at the start of communication with the gateway, starts timing by the timer unit, before establishment of the communication path in the gateway, if it is determined that the predetermined timeout time based on the time measurement by the time measurement unit has elapsed in cuts the connection with the access point. .FIELD 2