Hey. My friend has asked me to write a batch file that will trace when his girlfriend comes online because she has gone over-seas. Getting her IP adress was not a problem, as she is well aware of what he wants to do - Infact, it was her idea. I was thinking of something along the lines of: :LEW Testing Connection PING (IP ADDRESS) >nul IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" GOTO ERROR CLS ECHO.She Is Online PING 127.0.0.1 >nul GOTO LEW :ERROR ECHO.She Is Offline PING 127.0.0.1 >nul GOTO LEW But I am worried about the amount of internet usage that would use. Putting a file on her computer that notifys a server of her login is not an option sadly, so i need it to work off his computer. Im not 100% sure on other countries but his ISP (Optusnet) Is limited to 400MB (Sucks, I know) And i am worried about the affect a repeditive pinging would have on his small amount of internet usage. Any suggestions would be welcome. I am going to make when she logs on and off echo to a file, but i can do that myself so its not a problem. If anybody could please post suggestion. Even a script in another language would be good. Maybe something in VB6 that logs when she logs on and off to a file and a msgbox that pops up to the screen saying :Your Girlfriend Has Logged On. Thanks. LEoH <i/> OS:<

I'm intrigued that he knows her IP. Why not just get skype/? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

To be honest - I'm not sure. I'm just relaying what he said to me. If it is pinging at a rate of 32bp3s then would it not use around 30mb of internet in a month? LEoH <i/> OS:<