Any way to keep Sprint always on?

H8Hughesnet · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 2

I have Hughesnet, and I pay for the ultra business plan. The speeds are OK and had little service interruption, but the latency sucks. The fact that they now cap me at 1.2 GB per 24 hours was too much so I switched to Sprint.

Here is my problem:

My house has about 12 computers, I set up a machine with Internet Connection Sharing with the Sprint USB EVDO modem attached to it. Everything works great, but the problem is overnight it disconnects itself. Is there any way to keep the thing always connected, or have it auto reconnect? Is there an idle timeout? Any way around this?

Thanks!

Alex · Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1893

you are likely to have better success operating your Sprint USB device attached to one of the Cradlepoint routers, like the CTR350 for instance

the CTR350 is much better at keeping a connection open, and it will provide for hardware-optimized connectivity, as well

socksbb · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

With 12 computers a EVDO router would be a much better choice. ....

However, you could leave a box running a never ending ping request on one of the machines, so sprint does not drop the line for inactivity...

just go to run and run the following:

ping -t google.com

That way there is always traffic flowing, and it should not disconnect. And ping packets are so small, it will not effect performance.

brigca · EVDO User Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 26

socksbb · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:32 am Post subject:

jackrodgers · EVDO Addict Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1127

Maybe you have some utility running that operates in the early AM?

For instance, on the Mac I might schedule cocktail to do its cleanup routines and reboot.

In such an instance I might see the computer as open and running but overlook the reboot.

gb5393 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

Thats a good point, I had that problem with downloads if I left them go over night. I would find them only half done in the morning because windows was set to install updates every day at 3 am, thus stopping my download because the computer needed to restart.