Need "win dial-up connection keep alive" software

[Chinasaur]

Hey all,

Friend has a crappy dial-up connection and needs a Win proggie that will keep the connection alive. Something that pings the odd site every minute or so will probably work.

Anyone have any recommendations?

[pointwood]

Hmm...I know the Jabber client I use (http://psi.affinix.com/) is able to send "keep-alive" packages, but I could imagine you could find a lot of small utils that does the same :)

[Chinasaur]

Tks...Jabber is a bit too complex for this person..she's a windows user.

[rshepard]

here's one possibility:
http://www.gammadyne.com/conkeep.htm

There should be a number of others out there....

[willy1]

Those things used to be really popular with AOL dial-up users to keep their sessions active....

Perhaps technology has gone by that issue.

[pointwood]

Jabber too complex? So Messenger, etc. is too complex too?

[Chinasaur]

Pointy..she's a windows user .. what can I say?

She can use IRC but IM clients ... no. Go figure.

rshepard and willys..tks :)

[pointwood]

:rotfl: