On 03/09/2004, at 4:22 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
In an attempt to keep my Mac/ADSL online all the time irrelevant of net activity I have now set Network Tool to continuously ping my ISP, seems to work...
However, sending the 64 bytes every second, how will that affect performance ?
I have a 512k ADSL connection.
I presume not a lot...
It'd affect you very little. you can do somewhere over 50,000 bytes a second on 512k, so 64/50,000 is miniscule.
If you do want to spread pings out, and are OK with using the terminal, you can open it and enter:
ping -i 300 www.apple.com
for example, which will ping apple.com at 300 second intervals. That's only once every 5 minutes.
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