Thank you witch and milady, that fixed it! But I dont recall every having changed that setting and have never had this problem before. Odd. christy ----- Original Message ----- From: "witch" <alienkc@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: getting disconnected on dial up connection > sounds like you might have the disconnect after sending receiving mail > go to tools > options > and then the connection tab > make sure the appropriate box is checked or unchecked > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <poppy0206@xxxxxxx> > To: <PCTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:28 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- getting disconnected on dial up connection > > >> Hi everyone, >> >> This is cristy from my old aol account. I cannot stay online on my >> earthlink account for some reason. I called them and checked and tried >> different dial up phone numbers, they said they all checked out fine. I >> would sign on and be knocked off in ten seconds. Im on now on earthlink, >> so far so good. What seems to be happening is when I try to open >> "outlook >> express" to read my email is when I get bumped off. I never had a >> problem >> with this before. Any suggestions? I can read my aol email, no problem >> but opening outlook to read other mail results in disconnection. This is >> something new, was working fine before. >> >> thanks, >> christy >> >> -- >> <Please delete this line and everything below.> >> >> To unsub 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/ >> >> >> > > > -- > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > To unsub 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/ > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub 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/