I just printed this off so I can check this out when I get home from Church this morning. Thanks a heap an I will let you know what I discover. Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "GuitarMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:38 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless > Sandi, > Several things are going on here. > > First, there is no need to have your dial-up running on order to use > the > wifi for almost anything (an exemption will be explained in the next > paragraph). The moment your system recognizes a network connection, it > ignores the dial-up account and connection. you can verify this by > setting > both accounts up so that they each provide a Notification Area icon that > blinks as data travels to and from your system. Chances are good that > your > dial-up account already does this by default. To get one for the wifi > account, you'll need to go to Start > Control Panel and then open up the > Network Connections applet. OOnce it opens, right click on the top one > (it > should show as "connected") and select Properties. At the bottom of the > General tab, you'll see two check boxes. Make sure both are checked and > click the OK button to set it in stone. From that point on, you'll see > one > for each and you'll be able to tell which account is bringing in the data. > > Next up is your email refusing to leave until you dialed into your old > ISP. This is the result of heavier security put in place by most email > servers. My guess here is that your email program is getting the > authentication from your ISP through the dial-up account and then sending > the messages over the wifi, but I could be very wrong in that guess (watch > the pretty icon lights to see if you can figure t out for sure). It used > to > be that you could use anyone's email server by first going through your > own, > but that changed as Spammers started really taking advantage and clogging > up > everyone's ability to take care of their own customers. So, they put the > lock on it that makes it necessary to Authenticate the server to ensure > that > you could only sent ISP served email through their own server first. It > worked great for a while and many Spammers went out of business. Then, > they > figured out how to turn other computers into server 'bots'. This means > they > can sit at one computer (under a single ISP account) and command a ton of > other computers to send out the same garbage using their own ISPs. The > more > server bots they control, the more junk they can send out and there's > little > that the ISPs can do about it except for shutting down access to innocent > users to stop the flood. If you ever find your own email addy being > flagged > as a Spammer, chances are good that your system has been hijacked into > serving as one of these 'bots'. > > Peace, > Gman > > "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------