Tofu4679 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I've been doing the following: If ping($ComputerName,5) > 0 Then ;Computer is on EndIf But this method is pretty slow, even with the timeout set to 5ms. I'm wondering if anyone else has a better, faster method for detecting if a remote computer is powered on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I've been doing the following: If ping($ComputerName,5) > 0 Then ;Computer is on EndIf But this method is pretty slow, even with the timeout set to 5ms. I'm wondering if anyone else has a better, faster method for detecting if a remote computer is powered on? If it's slow because you frequently check then maybe my udf will help because it runs another task to check that an ip is available, and it can do any combination of set a flag for the state of connection, set an icon for ON or OFF call an 'event' function when the state of connection of an ip changes. It was designed for checking lots of ips (I know someone uses it for more than 30) without slowing the main script, but even one ip would have a time saving. See my sig. Serial port communications UDF Includes functions for binary transmission and reception.printing UDF Useful for graphs, forms, labels, reports etc.Add User Call Tips to SciTE for functions in UDFs not included with AutoIt and for your own scripts.Functions with parameters in OnEvent mode and for Hot Keys One function replaces GuiSetOnEvent, GuiCtrlSetOnEvent and HotKeySet.UDF IsConnected2 for notification of status of connected state of many urls or IPs, without slowing the script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcue Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 yep works great! definitely check it out. (see martin's signature - IsConnected2) martin: glad you put in that fix for 2.8 =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofu4679 Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 Thanks I'll definitely take a look. What bothers me is that if I ping a machine that is on the network the response time is between 3 and 5 ms, but if I ping a machine that is off it takes around 500ms, even though I have the timeout on the ping set to 10ms. It seems the timeout isn't working correctly. Ping is only slow when the machines are off. In my mind it should timeout after 10ms and move on but that isn't happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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