{"id":107399,"date":"2022-11-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=107399"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T03:53:11","slug":"20221115-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20221115-00\/?p=107399","title":{"rendered":"How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows lets you know when your computer&#8217;s Internet connection is limited or absent entirely. What is this sorcery?<\/p>\n<p>Windows attempts to download a file from a dedicated Web server. Depending on which version of Windows, it&#8217;s <code>http:\/\/www.msftncsi.com\/<wbr \/>ncsi.txt<\/code> or <code>http:\/\/www.msftconnecttest.com\/<wbr \/>connecttest.txt<\/code>. If the download is successful and contains the correct contents, then Windows concludes that you have full Internet access.<\/p>\n<p>If something goes wrong, Windows will report either limited or no Internet access, depending on what exactly went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/troubleshoot\/windows-client\/networking\/internet-explorer-edge-open-connect-corporate-public-network\"> read more details on docs.microsoft.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for special servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-107399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Looking for special servers.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}