code_wrong wrote:
>
>>> Yes I know this is easy, but I want to end the situation where my
>>> confused user sees a connection to the router then fails to download a
>>> web page because the router has not yet connected to the ISP.
>>>
>> Have the user use common sense and figure it out.
>
> Sometimes they just don't get it.

Hit them with a clue-by-four till they get it.
Seriously tho, the answer is to educate them, not provide them with an
extra diaper and comforter. Just think, one day they;ll move to some
other organization and _still_ be clueless.

> but I think if such software exists it would be useful to more than just
> novice users.

You could write a shell script to ping your isp, and as soon as the
pings started returning you could pop up an alert.

Or you could leave the router running 24x7, like they're designed to be...