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Message: [QUOTE="Thomas Bellman, post: 1726889"] First of all you need to define what "being online" means... Is it that your modem has dialed up your ISP and been able to establish a PPP connection? What if you don't use a modem, and instead have ethernet straight into your ISP's network equipment? If the link to your ISP's closest network equipment (switch/ router/PPP dialin) is up, but the link out from that is down -- are you "online" then? Are you online if all the links within your ISP is up, so you can reach everyone connected to the same ISP, but their peering is broken so you can't reach anyone else? What if there is a firewall somewhere between you and "The Internet", blocking you from accessing many sites, are you "online" then? How large part of Internet do you need to be able to reach to claim that you are "online"? Or must perhaps the Internet be able to reach *you* before you are considered to be online? (That means that a NAT box immediately makes you offline; I tend to like that definition. :-) Or perhaps you should tell us *why* you believe you need to check if the computer is connected to the Internet or not. Then we can go directly to telling you that it is a bad idea, and suggest what you should do instead. <0.5 wink> [/QUOTE]