Comments on: Ping to Keep Your Connection Alive http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/ Support and additional material related to books, articles, and digital media by Maria Langer. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DUN http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-5201 DUN Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:55 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-5201 [...] And if you don’t actively use the connection, you’ll get disconnected. (I wrote “Ping to Keep Your connection Alive” on MariasGuides.com to explain my workaround for this problem.) You’re also likely to [...] [...] And if you don’t actively use the connection, you’ll get disconnected. (I wrote “Ping to Keep Your connection Alive” on MariasGuides.com to explain my workaround for this problem.) You’re also likely to [...]

]]> By: seba http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-844 seba Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-844 hi maria!, thanks a lot :) greetings from argentina! hi maria!, thanks a lot :)

greetings from argentina!

]]> By: Maria Langer http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-847 Maria Langer Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:33:36 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-847 Thanks for this info, guys. I did try having Twitterific open, but I guess it just didn't query the Twitter server often enough -- it wasn't enough activity to keep the connection open. Thanks for this info, guys. I did try having Twitterific open, but I guess it just didn’t query the Twitter server often enough — it wasn’t enough activity to keep the connection open.

]]> By: Andy Piper http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-846 Andy Piper Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:23:11 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-846 To do this on Windows (and to follow Maria's example of pinging Verizon), open a command prompt and type ping -t www.verizon.com (the -t means keeping pinging until stopped, which you can do by pressing Ctrl-C) To do this on Windows (and to follow Maria’s example of pinging Verizon), open a command prompt and type

ping -t http://www.verizon.com

(the -t means keeping pinging until stopped, which you can do by pressing Ctrl-C)

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-845 Edward Vielmetti Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:10:37 +0000 http://www.mariasguides.com/2007/10/09/ping-to-keep-your-connection-alive/#comment-845 Another way to do this is to have some kind of client open (e.g. a Twitter client) that's bringing a bunch of regular updates to you anyway. On a mac you can open up Terminal and then use ping from the command line. Another way to do this is to have some kind of client open (e.g. a Twitter client) that’s bringing a bunch of regular updates to you anyway.

On a mac you can open up Terminal and then use ping from the command line.

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