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What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs disconnecting
on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?

TIA for advice.

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Frank said:
What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs
disconnecting on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?
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I assume XP still has Netstat? Open a DOS prompt and type...
"netstat -a 240" (no quotes).
Then just minimize the DOS window and leave it running in the background.

That will get server names every 240 seconds. You can change "240" to
whatever time period you want.

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Won't XP's own setting work for you? Click Start>>Control Panel>>Network
Connections and right click on the connectoid for your ISP then click
"Properties". When the Window opens, click on the "Options" tab and then
on the arrow beside "Idle time before hanging up". Set it for "Never".
XP is the first MS OS where that setting worked reliably (At least for
me.).YMMV. Good luck.

FB> What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs
FB> disconnecting on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?
FB>
FB> TIA for advice.
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What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs disconnecting
on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?

TIA for advice.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Put no trust in cryptic comments.
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Stay Live 2000 2.9
Program Type: Freeware
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1006018658
http://www.gregorybraun.com/StayLive.html

Release Date: November 1st, 2003
File Size: 95 KB
Download Time: 0.2 min @ 56k/s
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/XP/2000
License: Freeware

See earlier post for fuller details.

Regards
Gordon
 
What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs disconnecting
on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?
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Don't know if it will work with XP but you might like to check out
Keep It Alive at ;

http://www.pclightning.com/

Regards, John.

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What is the most effective freeware program for stopping ISPs
disconnecting on a dial-up system. OS is XP and location is UK?
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No need for a program. Do what dadiOH suggested - or get Mailwasher and
have it check your mail every 5 minutes. Anything that polls the server
will stop disconnects.
 
donutbandit said:
No need for a program. Do what dadiOH suggested - or get Mailwasher and
have it check your mail every 5 minutes. Anything that polls the server
will stop disconnects.
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Thanks to all for replies.

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