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>>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.
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>I think that the timeout property of all the controls I've looked at, were designed to take care of slow bandwidth while performing a real task. I think that if I cut the timeout of the control, then sometimes it will fail due to a slow connection rather than from an invalid IP address.
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>If you get a DOS prompt and type:
>PING -n 1 111.222.333.444
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>you instantly get a response that the IP address is not reachable. The speed of PING seems to have little or nothing to do with bandwidth or timeout settings.
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>It's sad to even consider that running something at a DOS prompt is the fastest and most reliable way to test a connection for an Internet based application.
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>David,


I knew I'd seen it somewhere!

Take a look at www.serverobjects.com where they have a ping control.