Hi, I'm glad that you found an alternative solution that works for you. Sounds like it should work. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Clendinen To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:23 AM Subject: re: Connecting to WIFI with JAWS Tom, I'm using Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, and the latest JAWS 11. I'm familiar with the Tools/Internet Options and the Connections tab, but while choosing the "Never Dial a connection" option may solve the problem, it makes it more cumbersome to switch back to a dial-up connection. I figured out a more convenient solution: I simply set my default home page address to an HTML file stored on my computer's hard drive, so when I launch the browser, it doesn't automatically try to connect to the web via the dial-up connection. As long as I first connect to a WIFI access point before giving the browser a web address, it will connect to it via WIFI. Alan Tom wrote: Okay. I've forgotten which flavor of Windows you're running, so you may need to look around a bit if you're not using XP. To disable a dialup connection: 1. Open IE8, then open the Tools menu and go into Internet Options, or you can access Internet Options from Control Panel. 2. Switch to the Connections Tab by pressing ctrl+tab repeatedly until you get there. Pressing ctrl+tab four times oughta do it. 3. Tab several times until you get to the radio button that controls whether or not a dialup connection is attempted. Set this radio button to "never dial a connection". 4. Click OK, then exit Control Panel if you went in that way. That should do the trick. Tom