Looking for Internet connection alarm program

[John Connor]

I'm looking fot a program that will sound an alarm when the Internet goes out. Is there anything out there specifically for XP.

 

[John Connor]

Found a stand along program called ping a ding ding.

 

[corkyg]

When I was using XP, I recall an Internet connection icon in the notification area. When the connection was broken, it popped up atext box warning along with a sound. That was built in to XP. Win 7 has a similar icon which depicts Internet connection status.

 

[John Connor]

I needed a loud alarm. There is no alarm that sounds in XP or 7. If there is I haven't heard it when Comcrap goes down. Just a yellow exclamation mark.

 

[corkyg]

Can't you tie a sound to that visual alarm?

Looks like your ping-a-ding-ding is as good as anything else. Lost Connection should be on the list of Windows sounds, but it is not.

 

[John Connor]

I just need a constant loud alarm when the connection to the Internet wasn't there.

 

[RossMAN]

I'm looking fot a program that will sound an alarm when the Internet goes out. Is there anything out there specifically for XP.

This is an interesting request. Mind if I ask why you want/need this?

 

[corkyg]

There are times when one is not sitting and looking at a computer. If there is an audio alarm when the Internet connection is lost, corrective action can be taken that might otherwise have gone unnoticed for a significant period of time. There is a pop up change in the Notification area, but Windows does not have a sound attachment to it.

 

[code65536]

I wrote something like this, except instead of sounding an alarm, it logs it. A number of years ago, when my ISP was denying that they were having reliability issues, I was able to rattle off to them the exact times and durations of each outage that week, which eventually earned me an apologetic call from some regional manager offering me service credit. 🙂 I still left them, though.

These days, I use monitor.us to send me e-mail alerts (and my phone has been set to ring an alarm when I get one of them) when my VPSs, the home server at my parents' house, or my home server goes down (since the servers at my home and my parents' home virtually never go down on their own, if I lose connectivity to them, it's almost always indicative of connectivity problems--this recently helped uncover the increasing flakiness of my parents' old cable modem, which I'll be replacing the next time I fly out there). The downside is that the free service has a resolution of only 30 minutes, but, eh, that's good enough for now.