Thanks for that guys... I worked it out in a quite rough way (parsing the ping results coming from shell) few days ago and was looking for a proper and cheaper way to do it.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

And here&#39;s a version that gets the latest solar wind speed from the ACE satellite...<br>
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Martin<br>
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hc wrote:<br>
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&gt; Ah, right, here&#39;s an updated version, that will also disconnect if<br>
&gt; there&#39;s no response within 5000ms.<br>
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&gt; .hc<br>
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