Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to have the wireless connection icon in the corner of the screen next to the clock display the actual connection speed in Vista Home 32 BIT like it does in XP?

I don't know why Microsoft thought it was NECESSARY to not include that feature for Vista, pretty ridiculous. So what is your question?
You want to selectively take some features of XP and put them in Vista? And you wonder why Microsoft did not make it easy for everybody to change every visible detail on the desktop?
Are you saying that monitoring the actual speed while you use the computer is a need you have? How does it benefit you?
Hey! just now noticed that my wireless speed is down. Odd, but I do not feel any compulsion to find bout why. It that ridicules?

Question: Suppose such a bit of software was available that would display connection speed on the task bar. Would you pat a moderate price for it? Or would the inclusion of such influence yo our next purchase? If enough people agree with you, I am going to start a new company that caters to their needs.What do you care on why it is a need for me? I came on here and posted a simple question and you write this nasty response back? Are you kidding me pfft.My APOLOGY. It was not my intent to be nasty.
If there is a need for this I would like to know. I use XP, but the thing is so small that I hardly notice it.An it only shows the speed when I pit the mouse over it. It shows speed of 54 Mbps. But does not show my current Internet speed.NP my apology too.

The reason for me wanting it is because I do alot of LAN parties here at my house where I have friends bring over their PC's. I noticed sometimes my Linksys router kicked off a signal of 130mbps and other times 160mbps. But anyway most of the games we play now are DirectX 10 games so we switched over to Vista hense I no longer can see the speed.OK. Got it. Now it makes sense.
So at your LAN parties you are NOT using the internet?

The router is dropping some connections. Speed seems to be the factor that predicts dropout. Sounds reasonable.
But Vista makes if very hard to monitor speed, using the 'zero configuration' method.

Let me give that some though. How many laptops at the party? All in the same room? How big is the room? Everybody has Vista. You can not use Ethernet cable?

Here is a LINK you may have already read.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/24380-43-slow-vista-wireless-speeds