|
Keep My IP 1.0
|
| Your IP address is to your Internet connection what your phone number is to your telephone, except it changes all the time. If you need others to connect to you, you need to keep your IP address. KeepMyIP prevents your IP from changing dynamically. |
|
| Updated |
Jul 20, 2004 16:24:29 | | Size | 31 kb | | Licence | Freeware | | Status | New Release | | Tags | DSL, cable modem, IP, static IP, dynamic IP | | OS | Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP | | Homepage | whizkidtech.redprince.net | | Author | G. Adam Stanislav |
|
|
Description:
Your IP address is to your Internet connection what your phone number is to your telephone, except it tends to change all the time. That is fine for most people who only need to connect to other Internet locations. But if you run your own servers, others need to connect to you, and you need to keep your IP address from changing dynamically. One way to assure that is by keeping your DSL modem connected to your DSL provider. Additionally, however, your computer needs to keep "talking." Typically, people solve this problem by pinging some web site regularly. That works. Unfortunately, that also abuses the resources of that web site. KeepMyIP takes a different approach. Instead of pinging some third party, it sends a random DNS query to your ISP at random intervals ranging from 1 second to 10 minutes, with an average of around 5 minutes. This tells your ISP that your computer is currently active on the Internet. It does so very fast without involving any unrelated Internet sites. It also does it without wasting your computer memory and CPU cycles. KeepMyIP is written in assembly language, so it is very small and lightning fast. In between the queries it puts itself to sleep so it does not interfere with whatever your computer is doing. It runs silently in the background without ever popping any windows. If, for some reason, you need to send out queries more often than every five minutes, or so, you can run KeepMyIP more than once. Two copies will poll your ISP twice as often, three copies three times as often, etc. Normally, however, KeepMyIP starts one copy of itself as soon as your Windows boots up and keeps running until you shut down the system. Of course, if you run an Internet server, you should avoid shutting down your system, except for very brief periods of time (minutes). Otherwise, your servers are not running and neither is KeepMyIP, so your IP address may change. But if you keep your system up and running, you can keep your IP for a very long time. | Short tags:
DSL, cable modem, IP, static IP, dynamic IP | System Requirements:
Windows |  Find last version of Keep My IP | |
|  Free Download Keep My IP 1.0 from whizkidtech.redprince.net |
| Similar software shotlights: | - TZO Dynamic DNS Client with Photo Sharing 2.1.3 — TZO offers the ability to run your own Photo server, web server, mail server and more. True dynamic DNS client/server technology to fix static domain name to a dynamic IP addresses. Cable, DSL…
- TZO Dynamic DNS with PhotoSharing 3.2.1 — TZO uses true dynamic DNS client/server technology to fix a static domain name to a dynamic IP address. This allows Internet users with Cable, DSL and dialup Internet connections to host their own…
| | Find all software similar on Keep My IP 1.0 |
| Similar news: | - DSL, Wi-Fi Chip Away at Cable Modem Market Share — By the end of the decade, wireless broadband will join DSL and cable as a major player in the market-share battle according to new study by Visant Strategies.
- Montgomery Sets Rules for Cable Modem — The Montgomery County Council yesterday approved new customer service standards for cable companies that provide Internet access, a measure experts say is among the first of its kind in the nation.
| | Find all news similar on Keep My IP 1.0 |
|
