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Internet Connection Icon

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bm

Flightless Bird
The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area Connection
has disappeared
How can I reinstate it?
I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
Blair
 
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Nick L. Odeon

Flightless Bird
And, what, pray tell, is the icon you are referring to? Mine is a speaker
and the Google talk icon. Only you know which one you are talking about.
"bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
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: The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area Connection
: has disappeared
: How can I reinstate it?
: I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
: Blair
:
:
 
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Peter

Flightless Bird
On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area Connection
> has disappeared
> How can I reinstate it?
> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
> Blair
>
>

Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
icon in task bar or some such.

--
Peter
 
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bm

Flightless Bird
"Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>> Connection
>> has disappeared
>> How can I reinstate it?
>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>> Blair
>>
>>
>
> Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
> icon in task bar or some such.
>
> --
> Peter
Many thanks for your help
I went to Network connections on Control Panel but it only listed Local Area
connection and Internet connection was missing
It previously was there
Is there another way of finding the network folder? I have used the search
facility with no success
Regards
Blair
 
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Uke A. Liptus

Flightless Bird
"Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
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: On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
: > The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
Connection
: > has disappeared
: > How can I reinstate it?
: > I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
: > Blair
: >
: >
:
: Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
: icon in task bar or some such.
:
: --
: Peter

He's talking about an Icon that sits next to that..it's already showing.
 
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bm

Flightless Bird
The icon shown is a CRT display
Blair

"Nick L. Odeon" <nickl@odeon.invalid> wrote in message
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> And, what, pray tell, is the icon you are referring to? Mine is a speaker
> and the Google talk icon. Only you know which one you are talking about.
> "bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:ej04ppDJLHA.4320@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> : The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
> Connection
> : has disappeared
> : How can I reinstate it?
> : I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
> : Blair
> :
> :
>
>
 
B

bm

Flightless Bird
"Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>> Connection
>> has disappeared
>> How can I reinstate it?
>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>> Blair
>>
>>
>
> Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
> icon in task bar or some such.
>
> --
> Peter

Further to my last communication I decided to reinstall my modem Netgear)
and during the process the icon appeared for the Internet Connection but at
the finish it disappeared!
Quite a mystery
Blair
 
S

Shenan Stanley

Flightless Bird
bm wrote:
> "Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i1ndso$mu5$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>>> Connection
>>> has disappeared
>>> How can I reinstate it?
>>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>>> Blair
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Go to the Network folder, right click on your
>> connection/properties/show icon in task bar or some such.
>>
>> --
>> Peter
> Many thanks for your help
> I went to Network connections on Control Panel but it only listed
> Local Area connection and Internet connection was missing
> It previously was there
> Is there another way of finding the network folder? I have used the
> search facility with no success
> Regards
> Blair

If it is wired with Network Cable - it is called "Local Network Connection"
(sometimes with a number after it) and if Wireless - it is likely called
"Wireless Network Connection" (sometimes with a number after it).

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
 
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Spamlet

Flightless Bird
"bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i1ndso$mu5$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>>> Connection
>>> has disappeared
>>> How can I reinstate it?
>>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>>> Blair
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
>> icon in task bar or some such.
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>
> Further to my last communication I decided to reinstall my modem Netgear)
> and during the process the icon appeared for the Internet Connection but
> at the finish it disappeared!
> Quite a mystery
> Blair
I suspect that sometimes when going through a router it does not register as
an internet connection. Ours seem to be a bit random as to whether they
show the internet connection icon too. The router is a Buffalo. (Also,
using a spare router as a wireless bridge we get two LAC icons as well.)
I'd say, just as long as you are getting your web pages, it's not worth
worrying about. You can check your speed via Internet Frog, or similar.

S
 
B

bm

Flightless Bird
"Spamlet" <spam.morespam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> "bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:etPm8NFJLHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:i1ndso$mu5$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>>>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>>>> Connection
>>>> has disappeared
>>>> How can I reinstate it?
>>>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>>>> Blair
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Go to the Network folder, right click on your connection/properties/show
>>> icon in task bar or some such.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter
>>
>> Further to my last communication I decided to reinstall my modem Netgear)
>> and during the process the icon appeared for the Internet Connection but
>> at the finish it disappeared!
>> Quite a mystery
>> Blair
> I suspect that sometimes when going through a router it does not register
> as an internet connection. Ours seem to be a bit random as to whether
> they show the internet connection icon too. The router is a Buffalo.
> (Also, using a spare router as a wireless bridge we get two LAC icons as
> well.) I'd say, just as long as you are getting your web pages, it's not
> worth worrying about. You can check your speed via Internet Frog, or
> similar.
>
> S
Thanks for your reply. I agree it isn't a real problem and I have been
getting the speed through CNET
Believe or not as I typed this I noticed that the icon has reappeared!!
Problem solved for the moment!
Regards
Blair
 
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Spamlet

Flightless Bird
"bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Spamlet" <spam.morespam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i1ns2p$f3u$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "bm" <Darroch@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:etPm8NFJLHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "Peter" <nospam@nospam.com.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:i1ndso$mu5$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>> On 07/15/2010 06:25 PM, bm wrote:
>>>>> The Icon which normally sits beside the Icon for the Local Area
>>>>> Connection
>>>>> has disappeared
>>>>> How can I reinstate it?
>>>>> I find it useful to check my Broadband speed
>>>>> Blair
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Go to the Network folder, right click on your
>>>> connection/properties/show icon in task bar or some such.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Peter
>>>
>>> Further to my last communication I decided to reinstall my modem
>>> Netgear) and during the process the icon appeared for the Internet
>>> Connection but at the finish it disappeared!
>>> Quite a mystery
>>> Blair
>> I suspect that sometimes when going through a router it does not register
>> as an internet connection. Ours seem to be a bit random as to whether
>> they show the internet connection icon too. The router is a Buffalo.
>> (Also, using a spare router as a wireless bridge we get two LAC icons as
>> well.) I'd say, just as long as you are getting your web pages, it's not
>> worth worrying about. You can check your speed via Internet Frog, or
>> similar.
>>
>> S
> Thanks for your reply. I agree it isn't a real problem and I have been
> getting the speed through CNET
> Believe or not as I typed this I noticed that the icon has reappeared!!
> Problem solved for the moment!
> Regards
> Blair

Yes. it tends to behave like that.
Another possibility: if you have several users, is that one of them turns on
more connections than another, and some are set to show icons and others
not. I often find my partner has onboard dongle, wireless bridge, and
ethernet all on at the same time.

S
 
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