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 7. The program writes to the file and exits
 
 ## Status information
-The program attempts to ping each device 5 times, if more then 50% of the pings make it through, it reports the device as up
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+The program attempts to ping each device 5 times, if more then 50% of the pings make it through, it reports the device as up.
+The pinging thread waits 5000ms or 5s before it considers a no-response.
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