doogald

Eureka! Sort of...

To explain:

I have a dialup ISP for when I travel. Therefore, under Settings-Connections, Advanced tab, Select Networks I had "programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using" set to "My ISP". However, with that setting when you select "Set up my proxy server" you must select both "this network connects to the internet" and "this network uses a proxy server". If you uncheck the proxy server setting it also unchecks the top setting as well.

This is maddening. There is no help at all for this, and in fact the help file mentions that you must select a proxy server in order to use the "work" connection in order to browse or e-mail.

Now, of course, I must remember to change that setting back to "My ISP" the next time that I need to use dialup.

I still say this is very kludgy, and unnecessarily so. I still do not understand why there are "work" and "the internet" choices. And if I am confused, imagine the poor new user...

Thanks for your post.

ikehiker

I agree, it's poor terminology on M$'s part. The way I finally came to understand it (somewhat) was that the 'Work' settings in PPC02 were primarily set up for LAN type networks while the 'Internet' settings were designed for dial-up (which not too long ago, most people used from non-work locations). It seems like, even though WM03 is supposed to be more networking-friendly, they don't want to give up the old terminology.

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TwitchJon

And for some of us poor jokers, we have a network at home and not at work. So...that means at home I would chooose "work" and at work I would choose "internet."

Why couldn't they just have said what they meant and meant what they say???


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