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Old 06-11-2005, 06:30 PM   #1
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My lovely ISP has decided to disconnect any connection when it is idle (or in my case when the bitcomet was working) so I am trying to find a program to keep the connection online, any ideas of a program that works?
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Old 06-11-2005, 07:31 PM   #2
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Idle for how long? 3 seconds? 3 hours?
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Old 07-11-2005, 04:23 PM   #3
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Change ISP
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Old 07-11-2005, 05:48 PM   #4
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In theory after 30min it disconnects you.

I can't change ISP. I signed with them for a year. Besides, today I lost my job and changing ISP is not my very top priority at the moment.


Nevermind, I will just live with it for now.
Thanks for the answers guys.
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Old 07-11-2005, 07:05 PM   #5
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How about creating a scheduled task that pings www.google.com every 29 minutes, or something like that?
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Old 07-11-2005, 07:25 PM   #6
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I am afraid that ping would be too small of a bandwidth eh, you know what I mean.
Good idea though.
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Old 07-11-2005, 08:14 PM   #7
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Why dont you ask you ISP if there is an "always on" option?

My ISP also disconnects after 20 mins but there's an option where I can change that.
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Old 07-11-2005, 08:22 PM   #8
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How about Connection Keeper. I haven't tried a tool like this (never needed it), but it seems okay.
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