Mel,

You might want to display an animation while the test is being performed.

>However, in testing if I unplug like the Cable modem cable that goes to the router, then its extremely slow - to the point that some users would probably think the application has halted. I am thinking this is what the user might experience when thier Cable or DSL modem goes down.
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>Any suggestions on how to better deal with this? I am thinking I might need to just buy West-Wind's wwHTTP::HTTPPing class - but not positive that is the final solution.