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A really basic connection question, Need to go from dialup to broadband
 
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I have been condemned by geographical isolation to dialup access for years, but recently got broadband via a cable installation. I want to get and send my Batmail via the new, much faster broadband, and have set up a new account with that information. Yet when I seek to activate the program, it seeks out my old dialup connection and connects at the old, slow method. An icon in my task manager shows the dialup connection activating, alongside the existing icon for the broadband connection. I have tried to eliminate any and all references to the dialup account in my The Bat configuration, but it keeps happening. I even hit "disconnect" on the dialup icon, but it reloads when I try to access The Bat again. Any ideas?

I use Win XP SP2, HP media center computer.

--Fred Powledge
 
 
 
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Go to start / control panel / internet options / connections. If you still have a dial up connection disbleor delete it. You only need this to connect to the internet - you will still be able to Fax etc.
 
 
 
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In TB there are two places to configure the connection type.
Options -> Network and administration
This sets the general connection stuff.
Account -> Properties -> Network
This gives you the opportunity to have different connection settings for different accounts.
So if you've got the general option ok, then you should look into the account properties whether one of your accounts has specific settings.
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Thanks to both answerers for their help. I had already tried to disable the dialup account, but what I was encouraged to do by your responses was to look into my firewall settings. AVG, which I consider a fine firewall program, needed to be told that it should pay attention to my LAN settings, not my dialup settings. Things seem to be working well now.

Thanks again. I suspect I'll be back before long with more basic questions. (I was encouraged to change from Pocomail to The Bat, by the way, by Poco's inability to deliver on its promise to provide Baysean filtering. The Bat seems to do well in this category, no?)

--Fred Powledge
 
 
 
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