Good idea, I'll check the DNS from the dial-up and see what happens. THANKS
At 12:12 PM 7/9/04 -0500, you wrote: >You could possibly check the default gateway. Sometimes these are not >accessible from the internet. You would need to dial out and verify. >Otherwise if you can ensure that your ip is released and then when you get >an ip again you will know it's back up. I am think a url check on your >router perhaps. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of gene Martinez >Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:07 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SA-list] Cable access down then up?? > >I have cable internet access. I now know that I can check the DNS server >with Salive to see it the cable is down. I have a router that has both >cable/dsl access and dial-up. I can use Salive to switch when the cable >goes down. What can I check to see if the cable is back up??? I can't >really use the DNS check because if this is a local cable issue, the DNS >will still be up and now that I have dialed to the internet I will see it >as good. My local cable can still be down so I don't want to switch back. >What can I check to see if the cable is really back up???? > >Thanks > >Gene >Regards, > >Gene > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat > >-------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > >-------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > Regards, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat -------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
