Verizon wireless - Frequent Connection "Dormant"

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Frequent Connection "Dormant"

Kenster

2006-02-23, 11:48 pm

I have a Kyrocera KPC650 with Verizon service. I keep getting a
"Connected - Dormant" message on the VZAccess Manager. When I get
this, it's as if I have lost service even though it continues to show
two to three bars. When it does go "dormant" it seems as if there is
nothing I can do to get it going again but wait it out. It's totally
irregular. I can walk away from the laptop for hours and it maintains
the signal, or it can go dormant right in the middle of a session that
is very active. I get the idea that "dormancy" has nothing to do with
my own activity on line. Is this an air card issue or a Verizon issue.
What might I do to remedy this? Thanks.

Dave Rudisill

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm

>"Kenster" < kensterfly@sbcglobal
.net> wrote:

>I have a Kyrocera KPC650 with Verizon service. I keep getting a
>"Connected - Dormant" message on the VZAccess Manager. When I get
>this, it's as if I have lost service even though it continues to show
>two to three bars. When it does go "dormant" it seems as if there is
>nothing I can do to get it going again but wait it out. It's totally
>irregular. I can walk away from the laptop for hours and it maintains
>the signal, or it can go dormant right in the middle of a session that
>is very active. I get the idea that "dormancy" has nothing to do with
>my own activity on line. Is this an air card issue or a Verizon issue.
>What might I do to remedy this? Thanks.

I have been using Verizon Wireless for Internet access for over three
years. In my experience, the "Dormant" issue exists only on their
National Access network.

I keep the phone from going dormant by running a continuous ping in the
background. The bandwidth consumed by the ping is trivial--it has no
effect on your throughput. The following batch file will do it:

@echo off
:top
ping -t www.apple.com
goto top

I use www.apple.com just because it's easy to spell. <g>

Hope that helps.

--
Dave Rudisill
Connected at 572 kbps using Verizon's EVDO network

Frankster

2006-02-24, 5:48 pm

Dormancy is a feature. I read about it online (I think at the VZW site, but
I can't remember now). Anyway, the idea is to minimize your hours of use to
only the hours you are actually using the connection. A good thing really.
I can't remember the specifics, but it is something like... after no
activity for (maybe 2 or 3 or 5 minutes?) it will go "dormant". During this
time you will not be charged if you are on minutes of use (this capability
is built-in whether you are on MOU or not). You never lose the "connection"
though. As soon as you begin using it again you will again begin minutes of
use.

One important thing to remember is that your "activity" is not only you
clicking on something. It is also your computer occasionally running DNS
queries and other web associated activity in the background. So you can't
relate it only to your own individual actions.

If I can find the reference for the above I will post a link. It might have
been in a section describing how EVDO works.

My LG8000 does this all the time when I use it tethered to my laptop. I've
had no issues with it. Keeps on working fine, other than a very slight delay
upon resuming activity (1-2 seconds).

-Frank

"Kenster" < kensterfly@sbcglobal
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news:1140750359.938513.199090@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>I have a Kyrocera KPC650 with Verizon service. I keep getting a
> "Connected - Dormant" message on the VZAccess Manager. When I get
> this, it's as if I have lost service even though it continues to show
> two to three bars. When it does go "dormant" it seems as if there is
> nothing I can do to get it going again but wait it out. It's totally
> irregular. I can walk away from the laptop for hours and it maintains
> the signal, or it can go dormant right in the middle of a session that
> is very active. I get the idea that "dormancy" has nothing to do with
> my own activity on line. Is this an air card issue or a Verizon issue.
> What might I do to remedy this? Thanks.
>

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