re: Trouble hooking up to the internet Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 2:04 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Hi Malynda. So this problem as only arisen since you've been using the XP comp. Are you using the same ISP for both comps? When you say you get a dial tone can you hear it dialing or do you just get a picture showing you its dialing? You can test your modem in Control Panel - Modems. I use Win98 so it might look a bit different to yours. On the second tab Diagnostics look to see which COM post your modem is on. Select that port and click the More Info... button this will test to see if you modem can connect to a line. I physically remove the phone connection of one to put in the other could that be it? I would have thought that you would have to swap lines from one comp to another unless you have a router. Another thing to check is Control Panel - Internet Options on the Connections tab look to see which ISP its using to connect to the internet and look at the 1. Never dial a connection 2. Dial whenever a network connection is not present 3. Always dial my default connection. Which one of these is used? Written in response to: Trouble hooking up to the internet (Malynda Peck: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 1:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: Trouble hooking up to the internet (Malynda Peck: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 4:40 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Trouble hooking up to the internet (Malynda Peck: Wed, Dec 27, 2006, 1:03 pm) re: Trouble hooking up to the internet (Keith Stanier: Wed, Dec 27, 2006, 2:04 pm) re: Trouble hooking up to the internet (Malynda Peck: Wed, Dec 27, 2006, 4:40 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum