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**Default value:** ``60``
- A ping is sent to the server every N seconds, N being the value of that option.
- Change this to a low value if you want to know quickly when you are disconnected,
- and to a very high value if bandwidth matters so much that you can’t afford
- 100 bytes/minute (seriously?).
+ A ping is sent to the server every N seconds, N being the value of
+ that option. Change this to a low value if you want to know quickly
+ when you are disconnected, and to a very high value if bandwidth
+ matters so much that you can’t afford 100 bytes/minute, or if you
+ don’t want to waste your battery by waking up the TCP connection too
+ often. Disable this ping altogether by setting this value to 0.
connection_timeout_delay