How to set a default internet connection

[Waidesworld]

I travel quite a bit and sometimes I am in hotels without wireless access so I use dial up to connect to the net. However when I come home and hook up with my own wireless system, browser pages try to connect to the net via the modem. Case in point, tonight I type on tek-tips home page and while the message in Netscape is "trying to resolve" the Network Connections box pops up asking which connection I would like to connect to the network with. Bu hitting cancel it will default back to the wireless and sometimes give me a page but other times it just says it cannot resolve the URL. This is a recent occurrence. It is extremely annoying. I have changed the network connections and rebooted multiple times today. I love to surf as I am watching baseball, and this hurts. Any notions out there?

 

[wolluf]

Haven't even tried to use Netscape in years - so... IE has a connections tab in IE - where you can specify 'never dial a connection'. Don't know if activating this in IE would update netscape too (if it was set to never, usually setting up a new dial-up connection causes it to make dial-up main).

 

[Waidesworld]

That was one of the settings I had tried but no luck.

 

[linney]

Any right-click options on ISP Connections in Network Connections to set or cancel Default connection?

 

[fenix]

As linney said, I switch between dial up and a network connection on pro, not sure if home has the same options, but I just disable the network connection by rt clicking on it, and then enable the dial up and it goes to the logon screen. Then vs/vs going the other way.

 

[bcastner]

Kelly Theriot notes:

Windows has the option to automatically dial your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to establish an Internet connection. This option can be controlled using this tweak.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Create a new binary value named "EnableAutodial", and set the new value to equal "01 00 00 00" to enable autodial or "00 00 00 00" to disable it.

Note: This restriction can be used either on a user by user basis by adding it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER or on a computer wide basis by adding it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

To view the list of names and addresses recorded by AutoDial, type the following command at a command
prompt: rasautou -s

To delete a name or address entry from the list: Start/Run/Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RAS Autodial\Addresses

You can delete any TCP/IP addresses that you see under this key. Note that AutoDial can use IP addresses, DNS fully qualified domain names (FQDN), and NetBIOS names.

 

[Waidesworld]

It's not the enable or disable auto dial as I don't have a phone line hooked up. it's the fact that that window pops up all teh time when it is looking for a page to connect to.

 

[linney]

Do you have any option set in Netscape that says to Dial whenever a connection is not present?

Specifies that when you need an Internet connection and a network connection is not available, your browser automatically attempts to connect using your default Dial-Up Networking connection.

If so try changing it to never dial.

If you feel a screenshot of what you are seeing would make things clearer try this site.

http://www.uploadit.org

 

[bcastner]

Please do a complete faq608-4650

I think malware from you description.

 

[Waidesworld]

I checked it for malware and any other type of spyware using Adaware 6.0 but got nothing,. However after a few days at home, the computer seems to have settled down and is longer requesting access via different modem connections. Weird or what?

 

[Waidesworld]

I checked it for malware and any other type of spyware using Adaware 6.0 but got nothing. However after a few days at home, the computer seems to have settled down and is longer requesting access via different modem connections. Weird or what?