Run something like Colloquy in the background, maybe?

Joe

On 12 Jul 2012, at 14:04, [email protected] wrote:

> Any solutions for iPads?
> 
> BirgitteSB
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 11, 2012, at 5:46 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
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