I've got a laptop with XP and use a wireless lan at home,
and also have a dialup connection set up for when I'm in
the field. While at home using the internet the dialup
dialog appears relentlessly even though the wireless lan
connection is fine, connected to my DSL modem.
Any help would be appreciated.

Go to Internet Properties, click on the Connections Tab,
select Dial whenever a network connection is not present.
this should tell the computer to only dial if you want
the net when your not on your network.

Within IE I presume? The "dial when network not present"
is how it has been set, and it seems that setting it
to "never dial" helps solve the problem, but it seems to
change itself back to the former setting! I'm told that
XP has some problem where it drops the network
periodically causing the dialup to take over. This may
be a problem with only the wireless connection... haven't
tried a wired LAN. The wireless router and connection
signal strength are not a problem, by the way.
The only way I've found to stop this behaviour is to
delete my dialup connection, forcing me to re-create it
whenever I need it. Sucks. Any additional ideas? I
couldn't find anything about this on the MS web site, but
there must be something there?!
>-----Original Message-----
>Go to Internet Properties, click on the Connections Tab,
>select Dial whenever a network connection is not
present.
>this should tell the computer to only dial if you want
>the net when your not on your network.
>.
>