Monday, 20 February 2012

Script to speed up mobile internet connexion in Linux


For people who use an USB stick or mobile phone to surf the internet on the go, it’s often reported that the connection is sloppy or unresponsive. Wireless features pings over 200 ms as it is, however, it’s not that what causes this ‘lag’.


For example, if you open an audio stream from the internet and then decide to browse some pages, you’ll notice that your connection behaves in a much more responsive manner.

One way to fix this issue is having a ‘ping’ command running in the background which probes a host (eg. Google.com) continuously. This keeps the connection ‘active’ as it always sends a few packets of data.

We’re going to be creating a script that will keep the connexion active.

To begin, get your favorite text editor and open up a random file in your system. I’m going to

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