Ping is slow when Host is offline

[AdmiralAlkex]

Even when you use the timeout parameter Ping() takes a minimum of ~500 ms on IP adresses without any device.

$iTimer = TimerInit()
For $iX = 1 To 10
    Ping("10.0.0.111", 100)
Next
ConsoleWrite(Round(TimerDiff($iTimer) / 10) & " ms average" & @LF)

471 ms average

Can anything be done to shorten this other than running multiple processes/threads?

Note that Windows own ping.exe is not any faster.

$iTimer = TimerInit()
For $iX = 1 To 10
RunWait("ping 10.0.0.111 -n 1 -w 100")
Next
ConsoleWrite(Round(TimerDiff($iTimer) / 10) & " ms average" & @LF)

454 ms average

Edited September 25, 2011 by AdmiralAlkex

[AdmiralAlkex]

Ping!