in reply to checking internet connection

You should be able to scrape the contents of 'ipconfig /all', which should get a "media disconnected" message if your NIC gets unplugged.

The comments in the other thread you mentioned are good though - especially about using an HTTP request instead of ping or traceroute.

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Re^2: checking internet connection
by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Feb 02, 2005 at 21:18 UTC

    you'll need to check the actual windows version being run to determine which command line utility to run (if you're looking to go that route and care about compatibility)

    Grygonos
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