The National Enquirer reports at 1:46 PM +1000 9/3/04, Dana Sibera wrote: >On 03/09/2004, at 4:22 AM, Larry le Mac wrote: > > > In an attempt to keep my Mac/ADSL online all the time > > irrelevant of net activity I have now set Network Tool > > to continuously ping my ISP, seems to work... > > > > However, sending the 64 bytes every second, how will > > that affect performance ? > > > > I have a 512k ADSL connection. > > > > I presume not a lot... > >It'd affect you very little. you can do somewhere over 50,000 bytes a >second on 512k, so 64/50,000 is miniscule. > >If you do want to spread pings out, and are OK with using the terminal, >you can open it and enter: > >ping -i 300 www.apple.com > >for example, which will ping apple.com at 300 second intervals. That's >only once every 5 minutes.
Great suggestion, Dana. I had let that completely slip my mind. That's a much better suggestion than creating an AppleScript. Let me add the following to your suggestion: You can create a detached process (using the "&" qualifier on the command above), and then close your Terminal session. One should be able to set up a cron script that will also permit you to execute the ping without leaving Terminal open. Bob -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
