Re: Anyone else notice Internet is a lot faster/more reliable when running a continuous ping?
 

3g without powersaving and the battery will last about 3 hours.

Mind, some people run so much crappy IM stuff that 3 hours is already the case...


Operators define thresholds for 3g, in the form of "X bytes in Y seconds: upgrade to hsdpa", "less then Z bytes in A seconds: downgrade to wcdma", and also minimum active times.
The minimum active time is annoying, as that means that things which use a low level, but frequent network access can keep the 3g on full tilt continously.

Re: Anyone else notice Internet is a lot faster/more reliable when running a continuous ping?
 

I know that I cannot connect to my n900 using the computer via VNC if I first don't ping my computer with the n900...

Maybe something related?

Re: Anyone else notice Internet is a lot faster/more reliable when running a continuous ping?
 

i noticed that while using connectify, it almost does not connect without that ping.

Re: Anyone else notice Internet is a lot faster/more reliable when running a continuous ping?
 

Have you tried setting the power-saving level to 'Intermediate' for that connection/AP?