Simple batch for checking internet connectivity and setting environment variable %internet

Question

I want to check internet connection, when it fails I want to set %internet% to not connected. And if it works to connected.

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Answer 1

Another option...

ping -n 2 -w 700 10.11.1.1 | find "bytes="
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
    SET internet=Connected to the internet.
) ELSE (
    SET internet=Not connected to the internet.
)
echo %internet%

This works well because...

• Sometimes the return for ping is Reply from 10.11.1.106: Destination host unreachable. and since it has an errorlevel of zero this fails. (at least for me)
• ping -n 2 will still pass if there happens to be a dropped packet.