Omicron
April 16th 03, 12:15 AM
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:02:13 -0700, "krang" > wrote:
>As to the unwanted dialling out, I'm not to sure off the
>top of my head, but I know it can be stopped - been a
>while since I've used dial up :)
>
>Another thing you can try is to open the properties for
>the connection (right click on "My Network Places" and go
>to "Properties" on the start menu) and un-tick the box
>to "Allow other network users to control or disable the
>shared Internet connection"
To wrap this thing up, on the advice of a friend, I disabled QoS on
the two networked XP machines and this stopped the unwanted dial-up
activity. I don't proclaim to understand why this works, but it did.
>As to the unwanted dialling out, I'm not to sure off the
>top of my head, but I know it can be stopped - been a
>while since I've used dial up :)
>
>Another thing you can try is to open the properties for
>the connection (right click on "My Network Places" and go
>to "Properties" on the start menu) and un-tick the box
>to "Allow other network users to control or disable the
>shared Internet connection"
To wrap this thing up, on the advice of a friend, I disabled QoS on
the two networked XP machines and this stopped the unwanted dial-up
activity. I don't proclaim to understand why this works, but it did.