What is the best way to check for Internet connectivity using .NET?

Question

What is the fastest and most efficient way to check for Internet connectivity in .NET?

Answer 1

I am having issue on those method on my 3g Router/modem, because if internet is disconnected the router redirects the page to its response page, so you still get a steam and your code think there is internet. Apples (or others) have a hot-spot-dedection page which always returns a certain response. The following sample returns "Success" response. So you will be exactly sure you could connect the internet and get real response !

public static bool CheckForInternetConnection()
{
    try
    {       
        using (var webClient = new WebClient())
        using (var stream = webClient.OpenRead("http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html"))
        {
            if (stream != null)
            {
                //return true;
                stream.ReadTimeout = 1000;
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream, Encoding.UTF8, false))
                {
                    string line;
                    while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
                    {
                        if (line == "Success")
                        {
                            return true;
                        }
                        Console.WriteLine(line);
                    }
                }

            }
            return false;
        }
    }
    catch
    {

    }
    return false;
}