OpenEuphoria

RE: Keep Connect Active?

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Nov 21, 2002
• 391 views

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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