I'm writing a loginscript, and upon loading network shares I'd like to check if the server's online. I'm now doing this usin ping, but if a server is missing dns-records it takes ~8 secounds to time-out.
This quicky would leave the script "hanging" - so, long story short: is there a better way?

also, I'm capturing the ping output thru wshPipe, that opens a console window. Are there any way of doing this without opening a terminal window, or hiding it?