Hi thanks for your reply Drugwash
As it turns out i did not require your a_ping script. Infact i doubt if i really understand exactly what it does however this is what i have used and it seems to work reliably... though no doubt could be better.
It needs devcon.exe to work devcon is available from windows support here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272
(put in c:\windows\system32 so you can call from the command promt (xp))
My Script is as Follows
Code:
Loop {
sleep 2000
RunWait, Ping.exe www.google.com -n 1,,Hide
sleep 3000
If not ErrorLevel
{}
else
{
runwait devcon disable pci\ven_168c,,hide ;................... This number is the actual device id located in device manager "pci\ven_168c" (you will need to change this to suit your computer)
runwait devcon enable pci\ven_168c,,hide ;................... This number is the actual device id located in device manager "pci\ven_168c" (you will need to change this to suit your computer)
sleep 3000
}
}
what it does
1 runs the windows ping utility (ping.exe)
2 pings google
3 hides the fact its doing this
4 checks if the ping had a reply
5 if it has it waits and does it again in a couple of seconds
5 if there is no connection it disables then enables the network adapter
6 goes back to pinging google every few seconds
Note
because i am only worried about interhousehold connectivity i actually ping my router instead of google as with pinging google i frequently get false negatives resulting in the disableing then enabling of the adapter
was thinking using nslookup instead of ping might be better....
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