I have this PING batch file.

ping 168.94.171.219 > nul
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO offline
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO online

:offline
ECHO offline
GOTO end

:online
ECHO online
GOTO end

:end
ECHO Goodbye

However the result that I got is only

C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop>ping 168.94.171.219 1>nul and cursor blinking below it.

What did I do wrong?what is your connection speed? do you have a firewall blocking ping?
it works for meThe firewall if off and the connection is DSL.ping -n 1 168.94.171.219
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
GOTO offline
) else (
GOTO online
)I expect Best Buy doesn't respond to ping requests. Choose somewhere else like www.google.com or www.bbc.co.uk

1. ping from my computer

Quote

C:\>ping 168.94.171.219

Pinging 168.94.171.219 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 168.94.171.219:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)

C:\>tracert 168.94.171.219

Tracing route to 168.94.171.219 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 15 MS 9 ms 7 ms 10.9.192.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 8 ms 62.30.64.35
3 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms aztw-t3core-1b-ge-010-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.1.240.129]
4 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms bir-bb-b-so-110-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.175.161]
5 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms man-bb-a-so-230-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.252.192.85]
6 20 ms 17 ms 15 ms 212.187.136.125
7 28 ms 18 ms 17 ms ae-4-4.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.69.133.102]
8 28 ms 35 ms 17 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.132.118]
9 93 ms 90 ms 89 ms ae-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.78]
10 92 ms 87 ms 89 ms ae-91-91.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.78]
11 85 ms 90 ms 89 ms ae-92-92.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.93]
12 110 ms 108 ms 109 ms ae-2.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.132.65]
13 106 ms 105 ms 106 ms ae-1-51.bbr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.1]
14 118 ms 116 ms 115 ms so-3-0-0.mpls2.Minneapolis1.Level3.net [64.159.4.214]
15 118 ms 115 ms 115 ms ge-3-1.hsa2.Minneapolis1.Level3.net [4.68.112.6]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

OrgName: Best Buy Co., Inc.
OrgID: BBC-19
Address: 7601 Penn Avenue South
Address: NONE
City: Richfield
StateProv: MN
PostalCode: 55423-3645
Country: US

NetRange: 168.94.0.0 - 168.94.255.255
CIDR: 168.94.0.0/16
NetName: BESTBUY
NetHandle: NET-168-94-0-0-1
Parent: NET-168-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: DBRU.BR.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET
NameServer: DMTU.MT.NS.ELS-GMS.ATT.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1994-03-01
Updated: 2006-04-17

RTechHandle: DA27-ORG-ARIN
RTechName: Domain Administrative Contact
RTechPhone: +1-612-291-1000
RTechEmail:

OrgTechHandle: KLS26-ARIN
OrgTechName: Seamans, Kevin Lee
OrgTechPhone: +1-612-291-1000
OrgTechEmail: