Very nice Larry. Let us all know what we can do to help.
PC Blaze Broadband > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Yunker > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:08 PM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: Re: [WISPA] User check program > > Travis has been good enough to be the Alpha tester of the > User check program over the past few days. BTW, I have > generically named it "Internet Monitor". > > I'm attaching two updated screenshots. I've added a few > features since my last post. > > These features include: > > (1) ISP customization via a configuration file for the IP > addresses for each of the test target locations. > (2) ISP customization Threshold settings > (3) ISP customization of Logo and contact information > (4) Upload speed testing** Note you will need to add a php or > asp file to your webserver to support upload testing. > (5) I rearranged the order of the tests to more closely > reflect nearest hop to furthest hop > (6) The system now detects the user's local IP address, > netmask, gateway, and DNS settings. > (7) Timeouts and ping responses of less than 1ms are now > properly reported. > > ---- > > I've run into a few issues and I thought I'd see if anyone > has a suggestions regarding these issues: > > (1) For purposes of Deployment, this program requires .Net > 2.0. The install program will check for the existence of > .Net 2.0 on the target machine and will attempt to install it > if it is not already installed. Unfortunately, .Net 2.0 > won't install on any machine older than Windows98 and won't > install on WinXP machines until Service Pack 2.0 or newer is > installed. So, the .Net requirement is somewhat of a pain. > The Installation program will work easily on machines that > already have .Net or on machines that don't have .Net but > have all of the prerequisites for installing .Net. Hopefully > that will be the majority of installs?!?@ > > But, in an ideal world, we'd like to avoid installing .Net, > so the question is this: does anyone know how to compile and > deploy a Visual Basic application without requiring .Net to > be installed on the target machine? > Or if that's not possible, does anyone have any suggestions > as to other visual languages which DO NOT USE .NET and which > might be used for future ports of this application. > > (2) One of the "features" of this application is a speed > test. As you might imagine, sometimes speed tests will fail > to complete (due to congestion, poor connection, etc.). For > this reason, it becomes imperative that I create some sort of > timeout mechanism so that the attempted upload or download > halts with no results if the test is "taking too long". I'm > using the webclient.uploadfile and webclient.downloadfile > methods to accomplish these tests. Does anyone know whether > there is a way to force this method to halt upon a preset > timeout? If not, does anyone have a good example of code to > place a process in background in Visual Basic? > > Thanks, > Larry > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
