Re: VPN connection problem with wireless router in network

Bill, sorry it's taken so long to respond. I've been super busy at work
and also have been on vacation for a week.

In regards to suggestion for another browser, I'll put firefox on my
desktop and see if it has the same problem. Also I can try some other
free browser or maybe the new IE 7 or whatever the newest IE is will
work.

Jerry Park had suggested changing the connections order. I did that on
both computers and now I'm not getting the annoying pop-up that asks me
to connect to some dial-up connection. Meaning that the problem I
described is still there when I'm working on the desktop and someone
gets on the internet on the laptop, but when that VPN connection is
severed all I have to do is simply re-connect and I'm back working
through a VPN connection. So right now this work around of just
re-connecting is working fine.

Thanks so much for the help!!!

Bill Kearney wrote:
> > Sometimes this happens but it's an easy fix to just close IE and then
> > open up a new one and that's no problem. Actually the problem that I
> > have happens like 1 or 2 days afterwards and not just immediately after
> > I disconnect the VPN. Someone else also repsponded in a wireless
> > networking group and suggested that I change the order of my
> > connections under advanced network settings. I'm gonna try that when I
> > get home and advise what happened...
>
> I've found IE can get pretty confused about how it's supposed to be getting
> it's connection to the internet. I found the cure was to stop using IE and
> switch to firefox. For the few cases where you 'need' IE you learn to live
> with it's oddities. Otherwise Firefox is a tremendously nice alternative.
>
> You could try resetting the various config options in IE. Or setting them
> as 'disabled as possible'. Like usng the 'never dial' option, and not using
> automatic browser configuration or proxies. But your office setup might
> require the proxy. IE and windows don't easily allow you to reconfigure
> applications and how they connect based on a per-session or specific
> subnets. But nothing else really does either. As in, only use a proxy or a
> VPN connection when making requests from IE for device in domain x.y.z or a
> particular subnet. It'd sure be handy but there's no way to configure this.
> I suspect that's more or less what's happening in your situation. Both IE
> and windows are confusing themselves about what sort of connections should
> be used.
>
> I'd just switch to firefox and see if that makes things 'less worse'.
>
> -Bill Kearney