I have a network at my house, and one at my barn. The barn network is bridged to the network at the house and hooks through a repeater to my house router. The router at the barn has 5 IP video cameras hooked to it.

I use Firefox to view the feeds from the cameras. Sometimes when I link to them they come right up other times it takes almost a minute to hook up. I almost seems like the connection from house to barn shuts down and has to be re-initialized before connecting. I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically ping the barn router every so often to keep the connection active. I'm not sure how often it would have to be done, once every 5 minutes maybe?

Any insight/thoughts/advice would be appreciated.


...JER (-: >