Or use IRC perhaps? IRC requires a similar thing to stay connected.

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On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Or ssh somewhere with a TCP keepalive every 40 minutes. :)
> 
>   A.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]> wrote:
> The prevailing theory of the issue is that the router(?) kicks people off 
> after 45 seconds of inactivity (i.e. it will kick you if you do not use the 
> internet for longer than 45 seconds. 
> 
> This is a stupid setting, and it might get fixed soon. Until then, you can do 
> the wonderfully blunt solution of pinging a google server every second. It 
> does not chew up any noticeable amount of system resources, or slow down the 
> internet. It does, however, stop the dropping.
> 
> What you need to do is go into the command console (search cmd if you have a 
> Windows computer), and then type in "ping -t 8.8.8.8" (not the quotes 
> themselves though). 
> 
> If it's done right, the command console will, ever second, show a new line 
> that looks like "Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=57" Occasionally 
> the time will be something other than 3ms (4ms is common, the highest I've 
> seen is 1465ms, which is bad if you're seeing it more than once or twice). 
> Occasionally you'll see instead "Request timed out." followed by the regular 
> Reply from 8.8.8.8: ... reply. Again, if this only happens rarely, you're 
> still good.
> 
> As long as you don't exit out of the command module (you can minimize it 
> without any issues) it will continue to ping, and therefore will not kick you 
> off the wifi.
> 
> If you have Fedora installed, you can do pinging a different way, but then 
> again if you have Fedora, you don't need this guide.
> 
> Hope this helps you. 
> 
> Sven
> 
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