need Internet connectivity indicator

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We need a program that will indicate whether a machine has Internet
connectivity at any time. It should place an icon in the task tray (or on
the task bar) that is e.g. green when Internet connectivity exists, and red
when there is no connection to the ISP.

The ISP connection is dialup from another machine on the LAN, and
occasionally a service interruption occurs. We'd like to be able to let any
win2000 box display the Internet connectivity status, not just the LAN
connectivity as is currently done in the task tray.

I suppose this would be accomplished by a regularly-scheduled ping request
to an address located "out there somewhere", even if it's just on the ISP's
side of the connection, such as a DNS server.

Any suggestions, please?
 
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Patrick said:
We need a program that will indicate whether a machine has Internet
connectivity at any time. It should place an icon in the task tray
(or on the task bar) that is e.g. green when Internet connectivity
exists, and red when there is no connection to the ISP. ....
I suppose this would be accomplished by a regularly-scheduled ping
request to an address located "out there somewhere", even if it's
just on the ISP's side of the connection, such as a DNS server.
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Unfortunately, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pingstat/ isn't yet
available, but it seems as if it might fit the requirements if it displays a
dynamic icon.
 
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Patrick said:
We need a program that will indicate whether a machine has Internet
connectivity at any time. It should place an icon in the task tray
(or on the task bar) that is e.g. green when Internet connectivity
exists, and red when there is no connection to the ISP.

The ISP connection is dialup from another machine on the LAN, and
occasionally a service interruption occurs. We'd like to be able to
let any win2000 box display the Internet connectivity status, not
just the LAN connectivity as is currently done in the task tray.

I suppose this would be accomplished by a regularly-scheduled ping
request to an address located "out there somewhere", even if it's
just on the ISP's side of the connection, such as a DNS server.

Any suggestions, please?
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http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/7-898-ace-ping.htm
 
It's perfect, thank you.
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.... except for the fact that a credit card transaction is required within 30
days, but the company is located in Russia, and releasing cc data to any
company over there isn't going to happen, since Russia is one of the major
sources of identity theft.

Software provider:
Domain Name: ALLWORLDSOFT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Sazhin, Victor vicmanATvicmanDOTnet
Minskaya st
Moscow, Moscow 121108
RU
(495)724-3536

Credit Card transaction:
Domain Name: FOMINE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Fomine, Vitali (e-mail address removed)
Frunze 150-38
Taganrog 347910
Russian Federation
78634479613 Fax --
 
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Patrick said:
... except for the fact that a credit card transaction is required
within 30 days, but the company is located in Russia, and releasing
cc data to any company over there isn't going to happen, since Russia
is one of the major sources of identity theft.

Software provider:
Domain Name: ALLWORLDSOFT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Sazhin, Victor vicmanATvicmanDOTnet
Minskaya st
Moscow, Moscow 121108
RU
(495)724-3536

Credit Card transaction:
Domain Name: FOMINE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Fomine, Vitali (e-mail address removed)
Frunze 150-38
Taganrog 347910
Russian Federation
78634479613 Fax --
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ah .. damn .. sorry about that it just looked the part :)
 
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