Monday, March 19, 2012

Reliance netconnect frequent disconnect solution

Recently I bought a Reliance netconnect+ despite the fact that it sucks. I noticed the strange behavior which made the connection to interrupt very frequently when it is idle. The only trick that came to my mind is ping.
Ok, enough of preening about my achievement. Lets make this work.

1. Press "win + r" key to open the "Run.." dialog box
2. Type "cmd" and press enter. (without the quotes). This opens up the command prompt.
3. ping -t google.com -l 1
Copy the above and paste it and press enter. This will start pinging the server so as to keep the connections always active. The above command sends a meager number of bytes, i.e., "only one". So don't worry about this eating up your bandwidth.

Though this didn't solve the problem 100%, it will atleast stop you from shouting "WTF is this?".
I'm yet to find a graceful way of doing the above, i.e., automating it with scripts. With an initial try it shooted up my cpu % to 20. I'm yet to figure out what is causing it by shouting at my windows 7 laptop, "WTF is cpu % figures?". I am quite happy that I'm not shouting about the Reliance netconnect+ anymore.

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