>Thanks for the help. I tried both InternetCheckConnection() and InternetAttemptConnect(), and they both don't detect my internet connection. Is there a secret to using the Win32 Internet Functions?

Does InternetAttemptConnect fire up a dial-up session?

Can you ping a remote IP address? Are you going through a proxy?

There is no secret to using these functions... most problems I have seen were traceable to one network anomoly or another.