Re: Network Manager Wifi thoughts

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu> wrote:

> > The big question I have is "What does Vista do?"  Vista has a feature
>  > where it _does_ show a little globe over the device icon in the system
>  > tray when it has determined that you are connected to the Internet, and
>  > not just your local network.  That said, it's pretty flaky and drops out
>  > quite a bit.
>
>  XP does this too, and warns about when an internet connection is
>  marginal. I'd be really interested to know how it knows (it's typically
>  correct!).

XP only notices when you have been given a 169.x.x.x address.