Monitoring network and dial-up connections

You can obtain information about an active connection by using the Status menu command.

• The duration of a connection.
• The speed at which you initially connected.

  For a single-link connection and for individual links in a multilink connection, this speed is negotiated (and fixed) at the time the connection or link is established. For multilink connections, this speed is equal to the sum of the speeds of the individual links. For multilink connections, this speed varies as links are added or deleted.

• For local area connections, the number of bytes transmitted and received during a connection. For other types of connections, the number of bytes transmitted and received during a connection, and the associated compression and error statistics.
• The diagnostic tools that you can use for a connection, if any. For example, the Windows Network Troubleshooter, TCP/IP Autoping, and TCP/IP Windows IP Configuration. These tools are explicitly registered in Windows 2000 by their providers, whether the provider is Microsoft or another organization.

For more information, see To monitor a connection

 Note

• If your computer is set up to accept incoming connections, a connection icon with a user name assigned to it appears in the Network and Dial-up Connections folder as each user connects. You can view the progress of incoming connections by right-clicking a named connection, and then clicking Status.