10th September 2002

Question: I know you can view the connection status of your Local Area Network (LAN) connection in Windows XP, but is there a way to do the same thing over dialup in Windows XP?

Answer: Yes there is, although it should already be on by default. If for some reason your dialup indicator got turned off, you just need to click Start and then your Control Panel. If you are in Category view then I will need you to switch to Classic mode. From there just go into Network/Dialup Connections and right-click your dialup connection. On the General tab you need to make sure that the check box for "Show icon in taskbar when connected" is checked and that's it. Now when you connect you will see an indicator down by your system time that you can double-click to get more information.