Disconnects

[snap]

I am getting disconnects every few minutes in Fish Hoek - is anyone else seeing the same problem?

 

[sevenworth]

gprs or 3g?

 

[snap]

3g

 

[snap]

Now running a continuous ping which is keeping it alive!

 

[sevenworth]

i've mentioned this before and havent really gotten much of a response from other people who have tried this, but with my 3g, i "ping -t www.google.co.za" and this keeps the connection active in most cases. works for me.

 

[sevenworth]

Now running a continuous ping which is keeping it alive!

too quick for me eh?

 

[snap]

Not called snap for nothing!

 

[sevenworth]

Not called snap for nothing!

lol. just glad to hear it works for someone other than me...

 

[vodacom3g]

snap, when did it start?, pre-paid or contract?

The symptoms sounds similar to the last batch of disconnects, but I'm not being dropped.

Anyone else in the Cape seeing this?

 

[sevenworth]

Anyone else in the Cape seeing this?

as u well know, been connected flawlessly all afternoon.

 

[TowerGuru]

not me!!! internet apn still not workin. cant get onto MXit .. im getting withdrawal symptoms!!!

 

[snap]

@v3g on contract, started at about 16:00 after an hour I started running the ping thing to keep it alive.

Will turn it off now and see how long I stay connected.

 

[snap]

@v3g lasted less than 10 minutes without the ping/stayalive and lost the connection. Going back to the ping.

At the same time it started also get a couple of 619's when trying to reconnect.

 

[pre-g-user]

The constant pinging wastes your bandwidth and although the pings might only be 32 bytes (default) thousands of 32 bytes add up quickly. Try running a ping with the following command which will drop the ping data down to 1 byte instead. ping x.x.x.x -l 1 -t (the letter after the - is L lower case)