Anne Cartwright wrote: >My computer is doing it again. It automatically dials up an Internet >connection. It was doing fine until about half an hour ago when it >started dialing. Luckily I was on the phone and heard the telltale >clicking. > >I checked the only place I know for automatic dialing: > >System Preferences>Network>Show [Internal Modem] (normally this is >set to AirPort)>PPP>PPP Options: > >"Connect automatically when needed" was not checked. >"Disconnect if idle for 10 minutes" is checked. > >Neither of these seems to work, if I understand what they are supposed to do.
That happened to me, too. My kid (age 28) fixed it, and I can't tell you just what he did, but it was Internet Explorer doing something like trying to finish a download or trying to check web sites to which I had "subscribed" (asked it to check automatically), after being disconnected in the middle of a download. Nelson Helm | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
