>Hi all
>
>Is there a utility that give a general idea of the health of the Internet connection (timeouts, slow pings)? Something simple that probably goes green in the system tray when the connection is living upto it's promised bandwidth.
>
>Please advise.

Not exactly what you ae lookng for, but this small VFP function will report true/false

Function InternetOK
Lparameters lcmyFastLoadedSite
#define FLAG_ICC_FORCE_CONNECTION 0x01
If Pcount()=0
  lcmyFastLoadedSite = "http://www.dir.bg"
EndIf 
DECLARE INTEGER InternetCheckConnection IN wininet STRING lpszUrlSTRING, INTEGER dwFlags, INTEGER dwReserved
Return InternetCheckConnection(lcmyFastLoadedSite,FLAG_ICC_FORCE_CONNECTION,0)=1