"gene kelley" <o***@by.me> wrote in message
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> Regarding this snippet:
>
> Dim isAvailable As Boolean
>      isAvailable = My.Computer.Network.IsAvailable
>
> I have an app in which I need to know if the user is "Connected",
> "Connected" meaning the user has a LAN of some sort or the user has a
> dialup modem that is online.
>
> I recall from VB6 that depending on what code you used, you could test
> for at least 3 user possibilities:
> 1) User has any kind of connection
> 2) User has LAN connection
> 3) User has modem connection.
>
> Question:  Is the above snippet equivalent to "user is connected
> either via LAN or modem" if the return is True?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gene
>