I use my older iMac to go online with dialup (cue your laughter) but it works fine except for every 5-10 minutes or so the internet connect butts in and asks me if I want to stay connected, even though I am still looking at sites and the connection isn’t idle. Whenever I try to look for an options panel or settings screen to turn it off I can’t find anything that does. I am running Mac OS 10.4 Tiger.
I know how to find it, the problem is that I can’t change the setting to shut off the stupid “Do you want to stay online” pop-up. I don’t even know why they have that in there because if I ignore it, it won’t even disconnect you.
No that wasn’t the ISP’s popup, it was from Tiger’s own Internet Connect panel, the PITA being I can’t find an options panel where I can change it to stop hassling me with the ‘Do you want to stay online’ popup.
No, I am too smart to use AOL, I am using Earthlink, however like I said before the popup is from the OS itself and not from the ISP software. However Earthlink does have a tendency to lose contact with its server every 30 mins or so, could that be why it asks this?
That software looks decent I might have to check it out. I am thinking about getting Clearwire if I can handle the hardware requirements.
I dont bother w/ Earthlink’s extras, but I do use the Web accelerator since it keeps quite a few sites from hanging on during login/loguts. I really don’t care for them and at the end of this week I’m installing Clearwire service. Anyway I found out on my own what you need to do. You go into the System Preferences for Network and then pick the PPP submenu and unclick all the prompt options.
