Quote Originally Posted by 'Hairball',index.php?page=Thread&postID=198196#pos t198196
I'm guessing the theory here is to activate a new session with your ISP. Lemme 'splain.

Comcast and AT&T (and others) use a throttled teaser rate when they advertise speeds. ZOMG 1.5 megabit connection! What it really is a 1.5 megabit connection for the first 15 seconds (more then enough time to load most web pages), then the ISP automatically throttles your connection back to something like 768k. They've been doing this for years...

I'm guessing the theory here is that the constant pinging starts a new "session" with your ISP, therefore re-enableing the higher speeds?

Only problem is, the pinging never stops...so the session never ends (same goes for WoW being loaded and running....)
Two things. First, I understand what you mean about throttled sessions but that is bandwidth related, not latency related. Second, while you're correct that the pinging never stops, unlike a browser session or a game connection, ping does not maintain a stateful pipe to the target host, if that makes sense. It restarts the "session" every time it sends a ping. Thus my original comment about certain wifi/ISPs dropping your link for inactivity but still not having anything to do with latency.

Eh, if it helps, great. I'd be highly surprised to hear anyone report that it actually did work.