How to send a ping signal to detect if a computer is online or not

[songdg]

How to send a ping signal to detect if a computer is online or not

[braunbaer]

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run cmd.exe /C ping.exe 192.168.0.1 >ping.dat

[Chunjee]

one sad thing about ping is that it can take a long time to timeout if the remote system is off. This can add up if you are trying to ping more than one computer.

Just a thought

[RickC]

How to send a ping signal to detect if a computer is online or not

A 'ping' does not detect whether a computer is online or not... it just detects whether a remote device is configured to respond to an 'echo request'. As such, it's not a failsafe method to test whether a remote computer is 'online'.