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cannot connect to news servers on laptop
Hi,
I installed, just a few days ago, a wireless router access point gateway in my condo. I have a tower running xp pro, and a laptop running xp home. No luck on the wifi front yet, but I have both computers connected to the router via cat 5 cables. I have comcast broadband internet. On the tower, everything works, on the laptop I can't get to the newsgroups. My ng server is giga news and access is included in the comcast monthly fees. That's what I'm using to post this message via my tower. I tried a few public domain ngs on the laptop and can't access them either. This isn't a new situation. I've been trying to get newsgroups on the laptop for a couple of years now, always with the same result. no go. The laptop has Juno on it as a dialup connection. There is no firewall or antivirus running on the laptop. When it tries to connect to the newsgroups it does it by trying to dial juno. Of course it can't because I don't have a phone line plugged in. How do I make it not use Juno, and use my broadband connection instead to connect to the newsgroup servers? I have been unable to find any switches for it. Every couple of months I try again and fail again, so this time I thought I'd try a newsgroup for some help. thanks in advance for any ideas you may have on this. Sammy |
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cannot connect to news servers on laptop
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:25:56 -0500, ~A_Sammy wrote:
Hi, I installed, just a few days ago, a wireless router access point gateway in my condo. I have a tower running xp pro, and a laptop running xp home. No luck on the wifi front yet, but I have both computers connected to the router via cat 5 cables. I have comcast broadband internet. On the tower, everything works, on the laptop I can't get to the newsgroups. My ng server is giga news and access is included in the comcast monthly fees. That's what I'm using to post this message via my tower. I tried a few public domain ngs on the laptop and can't access them either. This isn't a new situation. I've been trying to get newsgroups on the laptop for a couple of years now, always with the same result. no go. The laptop has Juno on it as a dialup connection. There is no firewall or antivirus running on the laptop. When it tries to connect to the newsgroups it does it by trying to dial juno. Of course it can't because I don't have a phone line plugged in. How do I make it not use Juno, and use my broadband connection instead to connect to the newsgroup servers? I have been unable to find any switches for it. Every couple of months I try again and fail again, so this time I thought I'd try a newsgroup for some help. thanks in advance for any ideas you may have on this. Sammy Internet Explorer Tools Internet Options Connections Never dial a connection |
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cannot connect to news servers on laptop
Thanks for the quick reply Bob,
but I found that one sosmewhere along the line. I have "Never dial a connection" checked but it tries to dial it anyway. But only when I'm going to newsgroups. For internet access or email via Outlook, it uses the broadband connection. I've also tried running NewsAgent instead of the microsoft ng program, but that doesn't work either. sammy Internet Explorer Tools Internet Options Connections Never dial a connection |
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