If your ISP (Internet Service Provider) implements the rule of disconnecting your internet connection after a few minutes of inactivity with assumption that you’re doing nothing within that period, ConnectBuddy will help you to stay connected all the time.
ConnectBuddy resides in the system tray and keeps you online by periodically retrieving information over your connection and making small mouse movements at an interval of your choice. It will look like you are sitting in front of your computer working and surfing the Internet.
Feel free to spend a long time to read a website article since you no more have to deal with disconnectivity. On technical aspects, ConnectBuddy’s GUI is easy to use and requires no technical knowledge or configuration. It uses Global Windows Internet setting and does everything on itself, light on system resources, and can start up automatically when you restart your computer.
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Operating system: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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License: Freeware
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Good soft, I want to use it!
May 27th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I did not know that the provider can do that. I have checked the fine print with my provider and find no such rule. In any case, this is quite a good piece of information to have. Thank you.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Good tool for dial up users then.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:46 am
The software developer did mention that even certain unlimited access accounts were signed off when they are inactive for a period of time. I guess the problem is with the ISPs.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:07 am
A great way to make sure that you don’t have to keep making small mouse movements to stay online.I don’t have the luxury of sitting at my blog or on the net for ages, so this feature may not be too helpful for me personally.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yeah, I sometimes find that before I finish writing a post in a forum I get disconnected and I have to write the post all over again.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I’ve downloaded this application, but it just doesn’t work. It shuts itself off after a couple of hours. Also, it’s not making “small mouse movements” as promised.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I never get this message of being disconnected of getting disconnected due to inactivity, i dont think my service provider has this built into the service, but i can see how this software would be useful if they did.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I had this problem with juno. After about an hour they will send a message on the screen about inactivity. I like to play online games and this screws me up. First because if its a long download and I don’t feel like sitting here the whole time while it downloads it will cancel the download. The second way is when I’m playing a game it will bring me away from my game and sometimes it makes the game not come back up or it will lock up on me. They said playing online games or downloading games would not be considered internet activity. I’ve even had it happen when I’m surfing and sending email messages. It seems that no matter what I get this message and I hate it. When I sent them a message about this they said that all isp have this ruling so your internet connection will not tie up your phone line. I don’t care about it typing up my phone line. I want to decide how long I’m connected not have them do it for me. If this tool will work and not cause me more problems then I say its a miracle.