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Hey everyone, I live in a dorm like apartment where my Internet plan is part of my contract. I have a monthly data limit which just isn't enough for me. Buying additional data is stupid expensive. I found out though that your used data is only calculated once you disconnect from the internet completely. So my idea is to get a small device that is constantly connected. I could use an Amazon echo / Google home, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of having one. Could I just hook up something like a raspberry pie to the Internet and how would I go about ensuring that it has a constant connection? Thanks for your time and sorry for the long post.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It would be easy enough to have a raspberry pi always connected that just pings google.com or some other website every few seconds/minutes. I'm not sure that's your best solution or even what the best solution would be, but that would be very easy to set up.