From: Matt Todd Date: 2006-08-31T05:15:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Checking for Network Connection Thanks... that was also a solution I had thought about, but couldn't really manifest with my limited experience. I'm not exactly sure how to do a timeout loop... or, rather, what you mean. Do you want me to try three times? Or perhaps to say "timeout after this amount of time"? Is that part of TCPSocket#new ? :D M.T.