Or ssh somewhere with a TCP keepalive every 40 minutes. :) A.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]>wrote: > The prevailing theory of the issue is that the router(?) kicks people off > after* 45 seconds *of inactivity (i.e. it will kick you if you do not use > the internet for longer than 45 seconds. > > This is a stupid setting, and it might get fixed soon. Until then, you can > do the wonderfully blunt solution of pinging a google server every second. > It does not chew up any noticeable amount of system resources, or slow down > the internet. It does, however, stop the dropping. > > What you need to do is go into the command console (search cmd if you have > a Windows computer), and then type in "ping -t 8.8.8.8" (not the quotes > themselves though). > > If it's done right, the command console will, ever second, show a new line > that looks like "Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=57" > Occasionally the time will be something other than 3ms (4ms is common, the > highest I've seen is 1465ms, which is bad if you're seeing it more than > once or twice). Occasionally you'll see instead "Request timed out." > followed by the regular Reply from 8.8.8.8: ... reply. Again, if this > only happens rarely, you're still good. > > As long as you don't exit out of the command module (you can minimize it > without any issues) it will continue to ping, and therefore will not kick > you off the wifi. > > If you have Fedora installed, you can do pinging a different way, but then > again if you have Fedora, you don't need this guide. > > Hope this helps you. > > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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