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.

And here's a version that gets the latest solar wind speed from the ACE

satellite...

Martin

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Ah, right, here's an updated version, that will also disconnect if there's no response within 5000ms.

.hc