Start > All programs > Connect to > Show all connections

[Dolby]

What do you have here ? What are you SUPPOSED to have here?

 

[|tera|]

Your NIC's Network interface cards and broadband PPPoE connections, actually all connections

 

[Dolby]

And this is divided into THREE sections, right? 'Dial up' ... 'Internet gateway' .. 'LAN or high speed internet' ... right?

In what situation would you have a connection under 'Internet Gateway'? Is your Internet Connection alway under 'dial up', whether it be dial up, iBurst, ADSL or 3G?

 

[LandyMan]

Is this WinXP or Vista?

 

[|tera|]

Internet Gateway could be your router if UPNP is enabled Double click it and the box to enter your username and password should pop up

 

[Dolby]

WinXP ... reason I ask is because I had a connection under 'Internet Gateway' a few days ago ... I played around now the entire thing is gone. On PCs I have seen since, they don't even have that.

 

[CodeMaster]

From my experience it should only show up if you have your router assign IP addresses (DHCP), and not if you have set static IP's.

 

[Dolby]

Explains why I rarely see it

uPnP technology ... the device itself should have it? Not the OS? Do most recent network cards, wireless adapters, routers have it ... ?

 

[Prankst3r]

Internet Gateway could be your router if UPNP is enabled Double click it and the box to enter your username and password should pop up

i think u're right teraside, at work, when i set my default gateway to the adsl router (which has UPnP enabled), i get that "Internet Gateway" icon. As soon as i set it to our server, it disappears

 

[|tera|]

The router has uPNP built in, which works together with your OS. I think there's a bug in XP which doesn't show the router, I had some trouble setting mine up the first time.

Click new connection and see if you can't find it that way, but it's nothing special really, it's just easier to access your router.

Here's mine on Vista

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4448/routerjm1.jpg

 

[|tera|]

i think u're right teraside, at work, when i set my default gateway to the adsl router (which has UPnP enabled), i get that "Internet Gateway" icon. As soon as i set it to our server, it disappears

Yip that makes sense man Well, I read it somewhere that it's uPNP, can't remember where

 

[Dolby]

Is there perhaps another situation where one would see a connection under 'Internet Gateway'? Our one PC has just about nothing connected - yet still has that connection!

I'm getting a feeling that is why I can't internet share - as I'm sharing everything else.

 

[XCalibre]

When you share your internet connection, the pc's you are sharing it too will have the icon also.

 

[dabouncer]

U need to install upnp from add windows components in add remove programs.