hey, my Airport Ex has been doing a simliar thing. I still haven't come to solid conculsions as to why but I did some things to help narrow it down. Sounds like your using your modem but I reconfigured my airport not to dialup automatically. I also port scanned (Applications:Utilites:Network Utility -Port Scan tab and generally test ports 1 to 2000) my own machine (127.0.0.1) to see if any odd services were running. Some shareware I downlaod had enabled sendmail and pop3 and I disabled those. I also found a piece of software that I was using wanted to "check for updates" I believe that if auto connect if off this should not work but I disabled the preference anyway. Software Update has this option. Hope this helps some.
matt --- Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> 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. > > The computer seems to connect automatically when ever it wants, whether > I need it or not. And it does not disconnect if I'm called away and > don't get back for a while. > > Why? > > Anne > > > > | 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>. | 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>.
