Mobile Broadband redialing

[elliotsagan]

Hi all!

I have discovered that my ISP drops down my mobile broadband connection specially at night. It is a very annoying fact because this type of net access is not cheap at all.
I am using Fedora 14 newest core.
I am able to configure Network Manager to automatically connect, but... this option does not solve the redialing issue.
Is there any way to set up redialing a dropped mobile broadband connection? A perl or python script, may be?
I am new to Linux. Perhaps not so new regarding this question I am posting here.
TIA to all at Linux Forums community
Hope to get my right answer.

[Rubberman]

They generally won't drop the connection if you keep it alive. You can write a simple script to run in the background, or as a cron job, that periodically does a limited ping of an external web site (such as google, microsoft, etc). That should trigger the ISP's keep-alive detection, so it won't disconnect you, thinking you are still online. A 5 minute period would probably work well. The option for ping to limit the number of messages is -c N where N is the count. So, doing this, 'ping -c 10 Google' should be adequate for the purpose.

[elliotsagan]

Hi Rubberman!
Thank you very much for the tip. I wil give it a try tonight for sure.
But (there is always that annoying "but") I am still interested in the redialing option. Specially because my connection is being dropped while I am downloading a big torrent file or other download tasks.
Regards.

[MikeTbob]

Hi Rubberman!
Thank you very much for the tip. I wil give it a try tonight for sure.
But (there is always that annoying "but") I am still interested in the redialing option. Specially because my connection is being dropped while I am downloading a big torrent file or other download tasks.
Regards.

You might inquire to your ISP also, they may have a throttle on torrents or large files. Just a thought.

[elliotsagan]

Hi MikeTbob,
May be that.... but the "dropping issue" only occurs during my broadband period... rarely after that
I am not sure if I am clear enough..

[Rubberman]

I would tend to agree with MikeTBob that your ISP may be doing some sort of crude bandwidth throttling activity. I would suggest that you contact them and find out what may be the case. After all, bittorrent is used for a lot of purposes other than sharing multimedia files, such as downloading Linux distributions, databases, etc. Complain, and insist that they stop this. After all, you have paid for the bandwidth!