Requesting a program.

[Guldfisk]

Hello, I don't know if this is the right section to post but here we go.

I recently spent some time searching for a program that would notify me if I lost internet connection because my internet is a little bit unstable so it would clearly help.

Unfortunately I didn't find any program so now I'm trying my luck here. I know DF is an awesome coder and I bet some one else on these forums knows how to do it so I want to request a program that shows me when I lose connection about every 500/400/300 milliseconds with as small CPU usage as possible.

I would like to have it like a windows gadget or just a .exe file that has a green light when I got internet and a red light when I lose it also if you could make this so I could use it when playing TF2 without windowed mode I would be very grateful.

tl;dr I need a program that shows me when I lose my internet connection.

If you don't think this is possible please tell me.

[chongo]

ping www.google.com -t

[Guldfisk]

I guess it would work until I reach the bottom of the cmd. But then what? BTW a tiny scroll-thingy that barely moves like that is not so easy to notice if it moves or not.

[chongo]

but if you lose connection, you WILL notice the difference.

[Guldfisk]

really? like a big wall-o-text saying "Connection lost" every half second?

[Snarf]

more like a big wall of
CANNOT PING GOOGLE
PINGING GOOGLE
CANNOT PING GOOGLE

[chongo]

Hey, by all means. Beg and plead for someone to write you something with a big ass stop and go light.

You wanted a way to determine when you lost connection, I gave you an easy solution that required minimal to no effort by you or someone else.


wall-o-text will simply tell you if you're connected or not, unless of course DNS breaks or route to them goes down. Shrink the cmd window down to a single line if you don't like the wall.

[Guldfisk]

Ok, so my earlier post came out wrong. I said I wanted a big wall of text to really notice it. Thanks for the tip but I'm at my father now and hes got a great connection so I'll try that next week.

[Kaylee]

This is how people make a dollar for every app download on mobiles without having to do any significant work or any innovation