At 12:48 PM 9/4/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Deb,
>
> > >Start > Settings > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks > Add Task is where
>you
> > >go to set this up as a scheduled job - it's pretty straightforward
>(alhough
> > >I haven't done it with ping before :-)
> >
> > I just went there and looked and tried to program it in.  Doesn't give
> > any options for seconds or minutes, only hours :(
>
>Bummer. Sorry about that.

Hey, nice try anyway :)


> > I've also tried several ping programs and they don't work either.
>
>OK, I'm confused here... several ping programs? There's only one... it's
>called "ping"...

There are programs out there that will ping but they seem only to work
on browsers and dialups.

Here's an example:  http://www.inklineglobal.com/products/sc/index.html

>Could you try opening up a DOS window and typing "ping google.com"?

I've done all that w/the server people, they say nothing is wrong.


> > This just makes no sense, why it worked before and quit working.
>
>It's possible to configure a server so that it doesn't respond to pings -
>they may have done this recently. If this is the case, all the pinging in
>the world won't keep the connection alive :-)

Maybe they've done this, sure seems like a good possibility.
Thanks for your input.

Deb



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