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Old 14-04-06, 12:56 PM
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possible connection dropping solution

well i think i have found a way to keep your net connection from dropping

you haveto keep your connection busy it seems,in my case i just stream a radio station all the time and that does the trick

i have been connected for 1day 11 hours and 10mins so far

i would like to know if this works for other people so post your results

if you have limited usage set by your isp do not do this!(unless its something like 30gb etc)

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Old 14-04-06, 07:25 PM
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to save on bandwidth mate, why not just do a:

ping -t www.google.com

at the command prompt. And maybe put it in your startup folder too.
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Old 14-04-06, 07:42 PM
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i dont have any bandwidth limits

plus i am always streaming the station to listen to anyway

good idea tho,i never thought of that.

can you set it to ping at certain intervals then?,say every hour or so?

and how would you go about setting it up?

i think i still remember how to send a ping but thats about it lol

woot just broke 300 posts

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Old 14-04-06, 07:47 PM
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Digital connections droping out . Mine has never died on me in about 3 years.
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Old 14-04-06, 10:46 PM
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You must be talking dial-up. I seem to remember way back in the days before 'always on' broadband connections my DUN used to auto-disconnect after 2 hours (set by ISP) unless connection was in use.

I used to get round this by getting my e-mail client to auto-schedule a check for incoming mail every 1 hr 59 min.



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Old 14-04-06, 11:47 PM
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some broadbanscompanies "disconnects" users when inactive.

mine used to do that after 15mins of inactivity but used a small program that autologged in every 5min.

i didnt get disconnected as such but i got logged out which basicly become the same thing in the end.

but now they have changed system and im connected aslong as my modem is on, no login or password is needed anymore.
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Old 15-04-06, 12:17 AM
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i have 2mb broadband and as raven said about some isp's disconnect after a certain time of connection inactivity,which i think tiscali does lol

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Old 15-04-06, 12:22 AM
Toxteth O'Grady Toxteth O'Grady is offline
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Fair enough.

Although I've been with four different b'band ISPs and never seen that before. Ah well.

Another thought, although you've probably already covered it, do you have your router (or modem) connection set to 'always on' as opposed to 'connect on demand/idle timeout'?



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Old 15-04-06, 12:29 AM
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i have 2mb broadband and as raven said about some isp's disconnect after a certain time of connection inactivity,which i think tiscali does lol
it is annoying to say atleast but there is several programs out there that prevents the connection to drop from inactivity.

atleast used to be one in norton systemworks.

btw kazaa was considered inactivity too.
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Old 15-04-06, 01:20 AM
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i dont have any bandwidth limits

plus i am always streaming the station to listen to anyway

good idea tho,i never thought of that.

can you set it to ping at certain intervals then?,say every hour or so?

and how would you go about setting it up?

i think i still remember how to send a ping but thats about it lol

woot just broke 300 posts

cheers.
Haha, he meant OC3D's server. If he goes over bandwidth limit thats not good..

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to save on bandwidth mate, why not just do a:

ping -t www.google.com

at the command prompt. And maybe put it in your startup folder too.
What if they ban his IP or google gets ****ed, ROFL.

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