Internet Ready?

I spent much of the day without Internet access today.  My cable provider went into the tank for most of the day. I got sick of testing it over and over so I wrote this little application to continually try and ping an internet address and when it succeeds it pops up a dialog (on top of other windows) to let me know!  It's nothing special, but if you think you might need it (don't want until your internet is down), grab it here:

http://wildermuth.com/downloads/internetready.zip

Initial Interface:

Alert Interface:

 

Comments:

I've been having Internet provider issues lately. I've been using a ping with the -t option and piping it to a text file. Since the problem was sporadic I could use the text file to prove that they had a problem. I could tell them about what time of the day the problem would show up and they never sent a tech out during that time period so naturally they didn't find any problems.

Your app should prove helpful as I won't have to monitor the pings anymore.

Marshall Harrison "the gotspeech guy" (Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 )

YOu might need to change the code to continually scan if your Internet is coming up and going down constantly (or just press go again).

Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 )


 



 
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