Thread: How to check your Network Connection Status

One of the foremost alterations in Windows Vista is the preamble of the Network and Sharing Center. Yet if it is extremely well prearranged with fairly user-friendly, several users still may have a few problem in obliging to it. Configuring your network settings is easier than forever but yet so, finding various configuration selections may be a complex task if you are familiar with Windows XP.

Such as, accessing your network connection condition is not as simple as it is in Windows XP.

In Windows XP, you just have to double click on the suitable network symbol from the taskbar as well as the Network Connection Status is opened.



In the General tab you observe information for instance the network speed or the packets that are being sent as well as received.



If you click on the Support tab you can watch your IP address as well as Subnet Mask.



In Windows Vista, if you double click on the network symbol you will observe a listing with the networks you are attached to.



To entrée the Network Connection Status, click on the Network and Sharing Center link.

Here you will observe a further comprehensive directory with the networks you are attached to. Click on the View status link for the network you want to confirm.



The Network Connection Status window will unlock. As you can observe, it is a bit unusual in similarity by Windows XP.



The major variation is that the Support tab no longer survives. But you can still observe facts for example your IP address, Subnet Mask as well as so on. All you have to do is click on the Details key as well as you will have access to even additional information than previous to.