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pow

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6th Oct 09 at 14:15

I need some help with this, I'm not a software developer!

I need a tiny little program for XP/Vista that sits in the system tray and simply is red when the internet is not connected (can be circle, square, whatever) and green when it is connected.

My idea behind it is to use the ping command, ping a very reliabe website on the internet (bbc, google etc) and if there is a responce, green. If error, red.

Where do I start?

paul.mitchell1984

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6th Oct 09 at 14:32

are you using a laptop on wirless? if so why do you need this as theres a wireless icon in menu.

John

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6th Oct 09 at 14:33

There will 100% be a program to do this I jus haven't found it yet.

Sam

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6th Oct 09 at 14:34

I think he wants to know if his DNS is working or not rather than his actual net connection if you see what I mean.

Sam

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6th Oct 09 at 14:34

quote:
Originally posted by John
There will 100% be a program to do this I jus haven't found it yet.

I found one but it was last updated in 2001...

pow

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6th Oct 09 at 14:41

No, I need it to see if the computer is connected to the internet, not a network.

Not fussed if it's done on DNS name (www.bbc.co.uk) or IP address (1.2.3.4)

Sam, link?

Sam

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6th Oct 09 at 15:00

http://www.moxom-software.co.uk/default.htm

Paul_J

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6th Oct 09 at 17:59

I can knock this up for you in minutes if you still want it pow.

pow

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7th Oct 09 at 07:39

Paul - would be fantastic, what Sam showed me was brilliant but ideally I need the "icon" in the tray to be bigger, ie a circle the whole icon size that is filled red when the ping fails, green when it is a success, updated every say 10 seconds?

_Allan_

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7th Oct 09 at 07:47

I need a similar app please gents, if someone can russle one up.

I have an O2 Wireless III router that after some idle time the DNS seems to fail. Although the laptops are still connected to the router the internet addresses cannot be resolved. It takes a reboot to work again. I've changed the DNS to use Open DNS servers but still no change. The box seems to fail after being idle. If the net is constantly being used it is fine. I could do with the app to test the DNS regularly.

Sam

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7th Oct 09 at 08:04

Allan - tell O2 about it, they can log in to your router remotely and sort anything that needs sorting in the settings for it.

Paul_J

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7th Oct 09 at 08:10

ok, i'll have to wait till tonight really - but i'll do it later.

DaveyLC

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7th Oct 09 at 08:34

Here you go POW

http://www.dohc.co.uk/temp/corsa/Pows%20Internet%20Monitor.zip

It pings google.co.uk every 30 seconds, and will display a balloon tip if there is no response.

For anyone who might be interested heres the ping code:

Ping pingSender = new Ping();
PingOptions pingOptions = new PingOptions();
PingReply pingReply = pingSender.Send("google.co.uk");

if (pingReply.Status != IPStatus.Success)

{
notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = "POW, THERE IS NO INTERNET!";
notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000);
}

You need to use the System.Net.NetworkInformation resource.

[Edited on 07-10-2009 by DaveyLC]

_Allan_

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7th Oct 09 at 09:18

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Allan - tell O2 about it, they can log in to your router remotely and sort anything that needs sorting in the settings for it.

Yeah I thought about that but I have SuperUser access and have checked all the settings. Nothing is in that would account for this. I'm pretty sure it's a bit of a dodgy box but it is a temporary replacement anyway and can't be arsed getting another one off them. I will have a look at Davey's app

[Edited on 07-10-2009 by _Allan_]

willay

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7th Oct 09 at 09:20

quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
I need a similar app please gents, if someone can russle one up.

I have an O2 Wireless III router that after some idle time the DNS seems to fail. Although the laptops are still connected to the router the internet addresses cannot be resolved. It takes a reboot to work again. I've changed the DNS to use Open DNS servers but still no change. The box seems to fail after being idle. If the net is constantly being used it is fine. I could do with the app to test the DNS regularly.

What were you using for DNS? your O2 Router?

_Allan_

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7th Oct 09 at 09:25

Yeah but I have the O2 router set to use Open DNS servers. It works fine on my Wireless II box at home. This box is in the gf's.
It makes no difference if Open or O2 servers are used. The DHCP lease time is default to 24 hours and cannot be changed.
That's about as much as I can work out.

willay

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7th Oct 09 at 09:43

heh change the DNS settings on your machines to use OpenDNS or O2's DNS servers instead of the actual router.

pow

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7th Oct 09 at 10:03

The only problem with that willay is then you can't resolve to other computers with dns names inside the network?

willay

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7th Oct 09 at 10:05

a) I would presume thats not a problem for a network that has a o2 adsl router at the top

b) Netbios does COMPUTER NAME res, can use 'ping -a 1.1.1.1' to resolve ip addresses to names on your local subnet.

_Allan_

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7th Oct 09 at 11:44

I'll give it a try. Thanks.

John

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7th Oct 09 at 11:54

Can you set the DNS servers on the wireless box 3 with superuser?

I've got o2 and my router gives out the open dns ip's but I've not got an o2 router.

pow

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7th Oct 09 at 12:52

Davey da man

DaveyLC

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7th Oct 09 at 15:14

No probs

oceansoul

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7th Oct 09 at 17:33