Thank you all very much, for your kind assistance. I lost my camel book and, I guess, my brain with it. :-) Here is the output of my ping: 
PING dslreports.com (209.123.109.175) from 10.0.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of 
+data.
64 bytes from www.dslreports.com (209.123.109.175): icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 
+time=89.483 msec
64 bytes from www.dslreports.com (209.123.109.175): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 
+time=119.926 msec
64 bytes from www.dslreports.com (209.123.109.175): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 
+time=89.899 msec
64 bytes from www.dslreports.com (209.123.109.175): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 
+time=99.920 msec

--- dslreports.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 89.483/99.807/119.926/12.344 ms

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and here is the output of my script (obviously the numbers are not exactly the same since I did them one after the other): 
 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 89.908/91.193/95.024/2.221 ms

91
0
0

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Having said that, I think I may look at the net:ping option in general and the graciously supplied script in particular. I briefly thought about NET:PING last night but this script was so close to working as it was, I hated to start from scratch and rewrite it. Especially if it turned out, I was just missing something small. Thank you all again, if any of you ever run for something...you have my vote :-) James

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