Looking for a program that tricks out the ISP to make the line look busy...

[Spook]

I've got DSL, so this isn't for me, but I have a friend who gets bumped off because of inactivity when he is dialed into his ISP. He wants to do some larger downloads overnight, but the connection times out...

Now, I know programs exsist for this, can anyone help me?

 

[Need4Speed]

yes ther are many out there. check downloads.com for anti timeout proggies.

 

[ApacheXMD]

if he's downloading overnight.. then why would he get bumped off due to inactivity? If you're downloading, that's activity, no?

-patchy

 

[madthumbs]

Downloading doesn't seem to appear as activity to ISP's. I think I've even had my HD set to shut down after 5 hours of inactivity, and even it would shut down during an unattended download and screw things up.

 

[Scoober]

Madthumbs is right. When I was on AT&T dialup, I'd lose the connection when d'ling large files, like mp3's or game demos.

Try this:
Keep Connected

I couldn't find the app I used, but this one got good rec's from other users.

 

[gtd2000]

Simplest method is to leave outlook (or whatever e-mail program you are using) running and set it to check for new mail every X minutes

 

[Spook]

Thanks guys, I gave him the KeepMeConnected program... That should do the trick...

Thanks again, for you help.

 

[Adrian Tung]

I think Getright has an option to "Ping to keep alive" somewhere in the configuration settings, if you use Getright to do your downloads.


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