On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:57, C Hamel wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Andersen" To: Sent: Tuesday, 03 Feb 04 14:39 Subject: Re: [SLE] KInternet - How can I stay connected? - SOLVED

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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:33, robomort wrote:

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Yes, kinternet sucks, but cinternet can be cron'd to run as needed to reestablish connections.

But your idea to set time out to 0 is not the problem I was mentioning.

Timeout 0 ONLY prevents disconnects caused by your machine.

Many adsl providers disconnect you from their end when there is no activity on the link. Nothing you can do about this other than to make sure there IS SOME activity every X minutes to prevent their watchdog from cutting you off.

I was asked about the ISP-disconnect problem and I suggested to the questioner that he keep a RealPlayer link to the BBC on his desktop. When he knew he was going to be gone for a bit, just hit that link and he's still online when he returns. It works.

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Yes, but WAY too bandwidth intensive, especially if you have to deal with a bandwidth cap. You can just run a ping job that pings once every 3 minutes (if you found that 3 minutes was the cutoff interval). ping -i 180 -Q 4 This uses almost NO bandwidth, fools most provider side cut-offs (due to the -Q 4 bit) and can be started at boot and left to run. Just make sure you have permissions to ping the remote site, (if they block you its no big deam). There is no point in streaming the bbc when no one is watching. It costs the british tax payers money and impacts your cost as well by driving up costs at your ISP. I believe a responsible useage is everybody's obligation and blatent wastes of bandwidth is irresponsible. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen