Use a TCP Connection across levels

Unity Engine
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How can I reuse a TCP socket connection across levels ?
What I really want to do is, I have a lobby in my application wherein users chat and join games, all is handled through TCP sockets.
Application.LoadLevel to load/start the game, the application has to make a new TCP connection for the game.
Is there a way around it ? somehow I can use the same TCP connection, that I was using for chat ?

Regards
Mudit Tuli

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Just make the class that manages your networking using static and extending System.Object instead of monobehaviour then its not touched by level switches at all

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Sorry to hijack the thread, but how can one still use functions like FindObjectsOfType after doing what you suggested?