how can I ping once per minute

Our internet connection has gone down at least a few times in the past few
days. It usually comes back up w/in 5 - 10 minutes w/out me doing anything.
So I suspect that our internet connection may have gone down more often than
anyone has noticed. I would like to monitor the situation by pinging an
outside source from my Vista workstation. I need:

- a target to ping.
- a way to schedule a ping once per minute or so.

Or maybe there is (there must be) a better way to monitor the internet
connection. Any suggestions?

I use Multiple Tray Ping from Moxom Software (freeware)

"OscarVogel" <> wrote in message
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: Our internet connection has gone down at least a few times in the past few
: days. It usually comes back up w/in 5 - 10 minutes w/out me doing
anything.
: So I suspect that our internet connection may have gone down more often
than
: anyone has noticed. I would like to monitor the situation by pinging an
: outside source from my Vista workstation. I need:
:
: - a target to ping.
: - a way to schedule a ping once per minute or so.
:
: Or maybe there is (there must be) a better way to monitor the internet
: connection. Any suggestions?
:

its not so easy...

you have to make a wait.bat file with this row in the windows\system32
folder...:

@choice -t 60 -c wait -cs -d w

this will wait for 60 seconds. now, you can make another bat file anywhere,
just put these rows in it..:

ping localhost
wait
name_of_this_file.bat

with this solution you dont have to download anything on vista.
--
Laszlo Dobos
lacy.hu


"OscarVogel" wrote:

> Our internet connection has gone down at least a few times in the past few
> days. It usually comes back up w/in 5 - 10 minutes w/out me doing anything.
> So I suspect that our internet connection may have gone down more often than
> anyone has noticed. I would like to monitor the situation by pinging an
> outside source from my Vista workstation. I need:
>
> - a target to ping.
> - a way to schedule a ping once per minute or so.
>
> Or maybe there is (there must be) a better way to monitor the internet
> connection. Any suggestions?
>