Guest Peter Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 I am developing a specialised system which uses a satellite phone for internet access. The phone itself is buggy and does strange things, and the satellite connection is even less reliable, dropping the connection after a few minutes on average. I am finding that the built-in Windows dialler is not really suitable. It doesn't properly detect that the connection has been dropped, and gets itself confused if the connection has not been dropped but the application is asking for data, and I sometimes get what looks like multiple instances of the dialler, and then nothing works at all. Also the satellite provider occassionally fails to complete the DHCP process, so you get a useless connection (no DNS etc). I would like to write a custom dialler, which - in the absence of data - pings some URL say once a minute and if this fails it hangs up and redials. How much work is involved in this, or does such a thing exist?
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