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hello,
I'm new to auto hot key scripting and I like it so much.

I'd like to know if there is a way to write a script that can detect if the PC is connected to the internet or not and alert the user with the result?
some other thing I'd like to know could a script force an internet connection!? and Is there a way to prevent that?

If anyone can help with that, thanks a million!

AFAIK forcing a connection is not silently possible...

for detecting it, this is what i use:



want the icons?

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Thats cool I want them
whoooooohoooooo!

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Th!s !s STYLE

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Another way to detect an Internet connection (on some systems) is to check the contents of the built-in variables A_IPAddress1 through 4.

.. Thank you Rajat .. I already tried the ping commend once but I wasn't sure how to make the script get the replay! .. now I do .. thanks again!

.. Thank you Chris .. I think using the IPaddress is just what I was looking for.. it works so good .. thanks!

Still the other thing about forcing the connection .. I know for sure that some software could do that, but I was trying to do it using AHK script,
you can say..I like home cook!

can anyone help with that. or maybe I should give up?

ooops ..
New_G = Guest_G .. hu!
just in case u didn't notice that!

Once you've detected an active connection, there's no need to force another one. A "force" btw. indicates that this new connection should be established against the will of the user who has started the current one ! 019x ...

Check your OS' rasdial command.

Hi BoBo ..
thank you for the fast reply..
Here's what I'm trying to do,
Because sometimes I 've to use a poor "dial up" connection to the internet. I face some troubles dowenloading large size files.
beside it's slow,Sometimes it may disconnected.
It's still an idea but I'm trying to colect what I need to write a script that would check the connection over an interval timer and check the size of the file that's currently downloaded ( that would be given as input or to be detected from the download dialogbox ).
so, if the size of the temp file used for the download doesn't reach the right size AND the script cann't detect a connection. then we need the script to FORCE a new connection and delete the temp and start a new download process.!

well .. that was the idea .. does it goes too far .. maybe.!

thanks once again. and still waiting for help .. I didn't give up yet.

if you use dialup then IPAddress vars will do the trick for you..(i thought its just me who's been stuck with dialup for so long)... what i suggested was for usage on static IP system (works on dialup too though)...

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Check --> wGet as it (AFAIK) allows to resume a collapsed download. It doesn't make sense to start a 1GB download from scratch (which costs money, and in case you don't know "time is money" - you don't believe it ? Hire Jonny and check how it feels to get bancrupt (just kidding J. ) if the last few bytes are missing as a result of a disconnection.

I want an alert sound file to be triggered off whenever the high speed internet connection icon is disappeared (Line get disconnected) from the tray. The Window Title for the connection icon by right clicking on the connection icon using window spy is Connection Tray. How to detect its existence in tray in the script? Using 'IfWinNotExist Connection Tray' wont work.

Thanks.

any specific reason you can't use a modded ver of my script above for that?...it'd just take 'SoundPlay' instead of 'Menu, Tray, Icon'!!

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Rajat,

I replaced Menu, Tray, Icon with 'MsgBox Connected' and 'MsgBox Disconnected' in your above script but same msg i.e. only Connected showed when I manually disconnected the internet line. That's why I thought of the idea of detecting the connection icon in the tray. I have tried the %A_IPAdress1% also but no luck.

Thanks.

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