Looking to use findstr to get it to find "0% loss" after a ping command. Perhaps an array of anything up to "50% loss".
This is for checking and ensuring a connection to the internet is 100% established before launching something online.
Currently it's structured:
ping %ip% -n 3 -w 3000 | findstr "0% loss"
pause
goto Starting
It's currently ignoring findstr and no matter what it refuses to find what I'm looking for
Ideally it would flow like:
ping %ip% -n 3 -w 3000 | findstr "0% loss" || goto Echo
pause
goto Starting
:echo
Could not find "0% loss"
pause
And I have tried that, it will go to echo, but even with 100% connection so it's clearly just not operating how I'd like it to.
Is there a better way to find % packet loss?
Or
Is there a better way to test internet connection, given ping doesn't work when a device is totally offline.
The search string you are looking for is too broad. When you check findstr for "0% loss", you are inadvertently picking up "100% loss" as well. Fortunately, ping puts the packet loss in parentheses, so you can simply include the open parenthesis in the search string.
@echo off
title Restart
color 0A
cls
:start
Cls
set ip=www.google.com
:Pingcheck
echo Checking ping..
timeout /t 3
ping %ip% -n 5 -w 3000 | findstr /C:"(0% loss" || goto Loss
pause
:NoLoss
echo We found 0 packet loss, at %ip% on %date% at %time%
pause
goto start
:Loss
echo We found some packet loss.
pause
I've also changed the name of the :Echo label because echo is already a command and having it also be a label would be confusing.