<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">What is needed is something like the old "Users" control panel from OS 9, which showed all the users connected to your computer via filesharing. I understand that filesharing and accessing your internet connection are not the same thing, but such a utility would certainly be useful...something that graphically/easily displays how many IP address are currently being used, perhaps, hopefully assigning a computer name to the IP so that you can easily identify which ones are yours...and which ones are from somebody else.<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">is there a way to see if anybody is actually connected to my network?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">alexandre</FONT></P> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you have a decent router you should be able to see all the devices connected.</FONT></P> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I've used lots of access points and I'm not clear on where this would be. Are you speaking of the DHCP log that some routers have? If so, what about those that might choose to connect not via DHCP?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>