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Re: How to tell if there is a broadband connection

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From: David Ayre
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:14
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"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
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>"David Ayre" <davidcayre@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>news:44c5d60e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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>> I want to implement an automatic update check in an application,
>> but only if there is a broadband connection open. Is there a way
>> of checking this?
>
>Not directly, no.  About all you can do is just try to connect to your
>update server normally and then catch an errors in establishing the
>connection.
>
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>Gambit
>
>
Thanks Remy.

David
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