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Vista and battle between dial-up and high speed connection

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GushpinBob

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Recently, I have created a dial-up connection to serve as a backup in case the cable internet connection went out. However, there's the occasion when the high speed connection will hiccup (I use wi-fi btw so brief dropouts are expected) and Vista will bring up the dial-up dialog box, thinking that I have absolutely no connection to the internet and insisting that I resort to that rusty 56k modem. This automatic behavior irritates me and I have searched the options for this connection and have gone to the lengths of disabling the modem in the device manger, yet the dialog box still comes up whenever such a hiccup occurs.

Is there any way to disable this automatic login box without deleting the dial-up connection itself?
TIA
 
What about creating, then disabling the dial-up connection until you actually need it....if you actually need it.
 
What's funny is that option exists for other connection methods like wireless, ethernet, firewire, etc. but not for dial-up connections.
 
Easy, go to device manager and disable whichever your not using. When highspeed crashes, disable ethernet, enable modem.
 
That didn't happen in Windows XP. If it did, you would go to Internet Options and then the Internet Connection tab or whatever and make sure that it 'never dials a default connection / never attempts to connect' or anything.
 
Cerulean said:
That didn't happen in Windows XP. If it did, you would go to Internet Options and then the Internet Connection tab or whatever and make sure that it 'never dials a default connection / never attempts to connect' or anything.
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That work! I can't believe I overlooked that option. I guess that's what happens when you don't use dialup exclusively as a means to get online for nearly six years. Thanks again! :D
 
GushpinBob said:
What's funny is that option exists for other connection methods like wireless, ethernet, firewire, etc. but not for dial-up connections.
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I suppose the folks that coded Vista assumed that if you had to resort to dial up, that you already had no other possible options left.


Ahh, the good old days of dial up. The days when I used to read books, clean the house, perform an oil change, study, or take a short nap in between page loads. :(
 
GORANKAR said:
I suppose the folks that coded Vista assumed that if you had to resort to dial up, that you already had no other possible options left.


Ahh, the good old days of dial up. The days when I used to read books, clean the house, perform an oil change, study, or take a short nap in between page loads. :(
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Don't forget..."Play Quake 1 online over a 14,400" :D

Oh the hours...upon hours...upon hours...of getting hooked on that game til 4 in the morning.
 
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