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pkandera

Member

Registered: 2021-01-07

Posts: 7

New condition for AutoSwitch

New condition for AutoSwitch: Internet (available/not available). It will be very helpful especially for spare network connection. PC is connected in local LAN but WAN isn't available e.g. when provider has a failure. But I can change network settings and route connection thru another gateway to next provider and WAN will be available again. Or I can switch to LTE modem or something else. Windows 10 has a detection for Internet connection. It isn't bulletproof but works. Testing WAN with ping request isn't a good idea.

What do you think about it? Or maybe you have another solution...
Best Regards
Petr

NetSetMan Support

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: New condition for AutoSwitch

Unfortunately, there is no local way to find that out in Windows.
The only way to tell if the system has access to the Internet, would be to contact some online server and see if you get a reply. You can already do that with the PING condition. Decide which server you would like to constantly ping (should be always online and respond to pings) and you can add that condition.

pkandera

Member

Registered: 2021-01-07

Posts: 7

Re: New condition for AutoSwitch

I see. Thanks.