Need a program to prevent being kicked offline

A friend of mine uses MSN dial-up internet, but she keeps getting kicked offline every so often.

I've heard there are programs that will prevent this.

Can anybody link me to a good (and free) one of these programs?

Thank you in advance.

 

There's one called Tickle that, erm, tickles the ISP connection periodically and randomly at timing periods you set. It's shareware, not free. http://www.worldlynx.net/pgerhart/_tickle.html

It's my understanding that MSN automatically disconnects users without warning after 8 continuous hours online, though it allows immediate reconnection. I hate the lack of warning and lack of an option to continue without a disconnect. One way around it is to do your own disconenct and reconenct when you're between chats or downloads or whatever -- that is, when you don't mind a brief controlled interruption -- so as to thwart the 8-hour limit.