1. RE: Keep Connect Active?
include misc.e
while 1 do
sleep(rand(1000) + 300)
system("ping <someone's web address here>",0)
end while
I have no idea.....
that will probably give you a dosbox in the background though...
-----Original Message-----
From: C. K. Lester [mailto:cklester at yahoo.com]
Subject: Keep Connect Active?
Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or so?
or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
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2. RE: Keep Connect Active?
Should be fairly easy to do with Win32Lib. Just create a timer that
opens a webpage using shellExecute. Let me know if you want an
example...
-- Brian
C. K. Lester wrote:
> Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
> internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or
> so?
> or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
>
>
3. RE: Keep Connect Active?
Keep in mind that your ISP may not count a ping as activity. I know my
ISP would cut me off if I was only doing email and/or newsgroups. I
actually needed to be making http requests to keep the connection alive.
-- Brian
Patrick wrote:
> include misc.e
> while 1 do
> sleep(rand(1000) + 300)
> system("ping <someone's web address here>",0)
> end while
>
> I have no idea.....
> that will probably give you a dosbox in the background though...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. K. Lester [mailto:cklester at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, 22 November 2002 09:55
> To: EUforum
> Subject: Keep Connect Active?
>
>
> Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
> internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or
> so?
> or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
>
>
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4. RE: Keep Connect Active?
I've not investigated this myself but someone told me that a common way
that ISP's limit your connect time is to do some fancy magic with a dynamic
DNS entry for the IP address that gets allocated to you for the duration of
your connection. When the TTL (time to live) expires on that entry so does
your connection.
This means that just ping'ing any old IP address at regular intervals won't
be good enough to keep the connection open. I would recommend using a tool
like nslookup to resolve names to IP addresses and addresses to names on a
regular basis. Build up a pool of names and addresses to query at random
to avoid caching anomolies. Also make sure you regularly ping your ISP's
DNS servers as well. This is reported to be a good way to keep your
connection open.
As I said this is all word of mouth and I haven't tested any of this.
Personally if I ran an ISP and wanted to limit connect time I would
probably have a background process that ran every minute and checked the
duration of all open connections. Any over the defined threshold would get
canned. No amount of pinging or whatever would fool such a basic tactic.
YMMV.
Regards,
Andy Cranston.
At 11:06 PM 11/21/02 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Should be fairly easy to do with Win32Lib. Just create a timer that
>opens a webpage using shellExecute. Let me know if you want an
>example...
>
>-- Brian
>
>C. K. Lester wrote:
>> Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
>> internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or
>> so?
>> or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
>>
>>
>
>
>
5. RE: Keep Connect Active?
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Nov 22, 2002
I have been experiencing this problem in Argentina since about 6 months.
Before then, you could remain connected as long as you wished.
But then they began slowly increasing the delay between the time the phone
call was answered and the actual connection started, from about 20 - 30
seconds to a minute and a half. And now, usually the connection breaks
exactly after you download a medium size file, or otherwise use a large
chunk of bandwidth. This seems to be a way to increase phone companies'
revenue, because probably phone companies own most ISPs. In other words:
1) A minute more of line usage each time you connect.
2) The same after you reconnect following a connection break.
3) Wait for a download to end in order not to raise many complaints.
----- Original Message -----
From: <acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Keep Connect Active?
>
> I've not investigated this myself but someone told me that a common way
> that ISP's limit your connect time is to do some fancy magic with a
dynamic
> DNS entry for the IP address that gets allocated to you for the duration
of
> your connection. When the TTL (time to live) expires on that entry so
does
> your connection.
>
> This means that just ping'ing any old IP address at regular intervals
won't
> be good enough to keep the connection open. I would recommend using a
tool
> like nslookup to resolve names to IP addresses and addresses to names on a
> regular basis. Build up a pool of names and addresses to query at random
> to avoid caching anomolies. Also make sure you regularly ping your ISP's
> DNS servers as well. This is reported to be a good way to keep your
> connection open.
>
> As I said this is all word of mouth and I haven't tested any of this.
> Personally if I ran an ISP and wanted to limit connect time I would
> probably have a background process that ran every minute and checked the
> duration of all open connections. Any over the defined threshold would
get
> canned. No amount of pinging or whatever would fool such a basic tactic.
> YMMV.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy Cranston.
>
> At 11:06 PM 11/21/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >Should be fairly easy to do with Win32Lib. Just create a timer that
> >opens a webpage using shellExecute. Let me know if you want an
> >example...
> >
> >-- Brian
> >
> >C. K. Lester wrote:
> >> Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
> >> internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or
> >> so?
> >> or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
