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>>>>Mabry have a Ping control as part of their Internet Control pack (www.mabry.com)
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>>>I looked at the Mabry web page and did not see the PING control. Is it a separate control or part of another one?
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>>>Thanks,
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>>Wow, I was sure I had seen this. I must've been dreaming.
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>>I guess you could use thier ASOCKET control to implement a PING fairly easily though.
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>Maybe,
>I already own the FTPX Mabry control which works great except it takes a while to timeout if your Internet connection is down. The ASOCKET control may also get stuck for a while.
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>Thanks,

That timeout is a property of the control. Surely you would have to wait for a time before you decide that nobody's going to get a reply from your ping or FTP request.