Checking Internet connection on Vista

[Eric Chatonet]

Thanks for testing at your place: it's invaluable :-)
Tests I made were with the router connected but the ADSL modem  
disconnected and I'm afraid it is the delay reason.

Le 20 juin 08 à 17:45, Bernard Devlin a écrit :

> I done some further tests, and mostly I'm getting a result with the  
> router
> disconnected of less than 30ms now.  I can't reproduce the case  
> where I got
> 14 seconds.  I had a look at socketTimeoutInterval and it seemed to  
> make no
> difference at all.  Still, if you are getting lengthy delays then  
> it looks
> like this is not an adequate way to get a speedy test to see if the  
> internet
> connection is still alive.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Eric Chatonet <
> eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Your allusion about SocketTimeoutInterval seems to be very well  
>> thought :-)
>> The problem is that I (the user) can't accept more than a 200 ms  
>> hang and
>> this could be not enough when he is regularly connected.
>> So this fails to address the problem :-(

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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