CodeIgniter 3 Dev MySQL server has gone away

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I am playing around with CodeIgniter 3 Dev and I keep getting this issue with MySQL.

mysqli::real_connect(): MySQL server has gone away

Anyone else playing with CI 3 and happened to run into this and found a fix?

My work is local using wamp with a remote connection into a mysql server. I tried changing

php.ini

Code:

mysqli.reconnect = Off

to

Code:

mysqli.reconnect = On

but it still pops up after an hour or two.