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To: Wayne K who wrote (1471)	11/21/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Chad Barrett	Respond to of 4467

Programs like the ones your referred too are generally only good for keeping your internet connection active. If you often have long periods of time where you aren't doing anything on the web, the utility will be useful to you. This is because many ISPs will disconnect you after a certain period of innactivety to free up their phone line for other customers. Therefore, to stay logged into a specific website in one browser, while you are active in other browsers on the net isn't really the purpose of the utility. For that reason I doubt it will work in fixing the timing out problem at the various discount brokerage websites. But you can give it a try and let us all know how if it works... best of luck! Chad

To: Wayne K who wrote (1471)	11/21/1998 2:29:00 AM
From: StockPro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Wayne, I'm on 'cable modem' service so "staying alive" is no longer an issue for me, but when I used to use a dial-up ISP connection I didn't bother with any special software. All I did was set my Netscape e-mail to check for mail every 3 minutes. That is just the same as "pinging" your ISP and should keep most dial-up connections alive. Especially good for those low on memory, because you're not loading yet another program into memory.