>Hi,
>It stops badly configured or faulty hardware from disconnecting, it works to keep things working until the root cause is found.
So, it would make sense if the ISP provides an intermittent connection. Anyway, it is still a mistery to me why PING should keep the connection open, and the data which I am communicating anyway (say, downloading a Web page) would not.
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