Re: Connecting to the Internet

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"mayayana" <mayayanaXX1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I don't want to
> bypass user choice. I just want to bypass the limitation
> on showing a dialogue to go online.

I hope you don't take this the "wrong" way, but note that Mark also got an
impression that you might have been trying to "bypass user choice". So I am
sorry if, when I said something similar, it seemed innapropriate, but I hope
you can understand that I have seen many other people that do try to force
their user to do things a certain way.

> I think
> I've solved that dilemma by using InternetDial.
> I can now show the dialogue regardless uf user
> preference settings.

Again, this seems to be saying you want to force the user to do things your
way. I assume that is not what you want; you are probably saying that you
simply want to make things as convenient for the user as possible.

> But now I'm wondering
> (as I detailed in the response to Larry Serflaten),
> how that relates to non-dial-up connections.

Now that's better. I had tried to make the point that issues such as that
are not clear.

> I just want to prompt for a connection under
> all circumstances and make it easy for them to
> go online.

The important thing is that you want to "make it easy for them to go
online". It helps a lot to know that that is a primary requirement.

> (I don't have much personal experience
> with non-dial-up so I don't know whether a DSL
> user, say, gets connection prompts or how that
> would work. Some DSL services seem to default
> to offline for security purposes. So I'm assuming
> they might need to actively do something equivalent
> to clicking "connect" in the dial-up dialogue in order
> to get back online.)

I have had a cable-modem for more than a couple of years. A broadband
(cable-modem, DSL and such) connection is normally the same as a LAN
connection. In fact, for me, Windows calls it a LAN connection. It is
typical for the connection to always exist whenever Windows is up, unless
there is an error of some type.


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