Dial-up and briadband co-habiting: how?

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1 total messages Started by woody Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:12

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Author: woody
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:12

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Apologies if this is off topic.

I have just got ntlWorld broadband but still want to use my Demon
account.

The only way I have found to make them co-habit is to run winipcfg as
the very first program after a cold start and select the Netgear LAN
interface - then I can access broadband but NOT dial-up.

If, after a cold start, I do not run winipcfg it defaults to the 'ppp
adapter' and I can go straight into Demon dial-up but cannot access
broadband.

Curiously if in broadband mode I try to run IE6 I get a blue screen of
death showing an error in a vxd called pppmac(4) (or something like.)
Restarting IE6 again will usually work but not always - a reboot is
sometimes required.

I seem to be able to run winipcfg only once immediately after start-up -
thereafter it will not run again until I cold boot.

With either of these, Windoze hangs at the close-down splash screen and
I have to either switch off or press the restart button which then
invokes Scandisk as I did not close down properly.

If I run both in dial-up all works perfectly including close-down.

Running W98SE on Celeron 400 with 128Mb RAM.

Anyone any ideas/advice?

-- 
Andrew W.
Harrogate, UK
woody@tangon.demon.co.uk

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