On-line check not always working.

[gsb]

I have a script I adopted from a post here.

It checks to see if a user is connected to the internet, ...well it is supposed to do that.

But some one online with me on MSN kept getting kicked out of the script.

He was on an old NT machine.

$rv = Ping("www.Google.com"); default is 4 seconds
If NOT $rv Then
    MsgBox(262144,"Error","You are not connected to the internet." & @CRLF & "Terminating now.")
    Exit 0
EndIf

I commented out this code and the script worked fine for this person.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

gsb

[PaulIA]

Dial Up?

Bad NIC card?

Fully patched NT machine?

Anything going on in the Event log?

Might try changing the function to do multiple pings before kicking them out. For example, keep a counter of failed ping attempts and only kick them out after you've pinged x times over y seconds. That way you don't get a hung app and you'd be more tolerant of a minor network outage.

[Richard Robertson]

Try Ping("google.com"). I used "ping google" as a generic internet test as well. I used the www and it didn't work for me.

[gsb]

Good ideas both.

I will try.

As to this user's machine... well I will never know I think.

Thanks,

gsb