Tata Indicom broadband customers face one very irritating issue. Whenever they need to access the internet, they need to open a browser window, logon to the URL and keep the browser window open as long as they're accessing the internet.
Now, I myself am a TIBB customer and I find it very frustrating to keep the browser window open all the time. Not only does it occupy some of your system memory but some space on your system taskbar as well. Worse is when some other application is using your internet connection (for example a download manager) and you accidently close the browser window by force of habit (I often do that!). Poof! your connection gets terminated, your downloads halt. This gets even worse when you're downloading from a site which does not support download resuming like RapidShare.
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So what's the solution?
A workaround to this issue would be a dialer application which would take your login credentials, login to the site and keep your connection on. This would better serve its’ purpose instead of using a browser window. I tried looking for such application, but found none. Thus, I went ahead and wrote one of my own.
T Dialer is just that. Basically, it’s a trimmed down version of IE. When you load it, it opens your login URL, you login using your credentials and once you are logged, you can simply minimize this application to the system tray. At this point, this is all which this application does. Since this is a trimmed down version, it has a lower memory footprint then a full fledged browser window.
This application can be downloaded free from the below link:
T Dialer is written in C# using .Net Framework v3.5. Source code for this application can be downloaded from CodePlex at the below link:
http://tdialer.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
I plan to remove the browser altogether from the next major release and am currently checking its feasibility.
Feel free to use it and give me your feedback right here.
I will be posting updates regarding this app., right here on this blog.
Thanks,
Vishal you have found a great solution to Tata login window 'open at all times' condition. I also face this problem many a times. Good work…
Great, may be you can sell this one off to Tata Indicom guys so that they can bundle it to their customers?
Hey Ruchir, thanks for your tip! That is a good idea, yet this app. has to go through a few feature updates before it can handle all aspects of the underlying task. Let's see in which direction this goes.