Re: ATT/@home Date view Thread view Subject view Author view From: Kurt True (kurtt@uclink4.berkeley.edu) Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 09:49:09 PST * Next message: Lee Friedman: "RE: ATT/@home" * Previous message: Sherry M. Rogers: "Symantec Security Response - W32.Goner.A@mm (fwd)" * In reply to: Nicholas Phelps: "Re: ATT/@home" * Next in thread: Lee Friedman: "RE: ATT/@home" * Reply: Lee Friedman: "RE: ATT/@home" * Reply: Nicholas Phelps: "Re: ATT/@home" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So just to clarify, you're saying the key to effecting the switch over is you just have to wait a while after you change the settings? I ask because your experience sounds like exactly what I went through this morning, except the part where you waited 10-15 minutes and the modem kicked in. I just turned off the machine after what seemed an appropriate period of cussing. -kt -kt At 12:00 PM 12/4/2001 -0800, Nicholas Phelps wrote: >Hi Ted, >Please excuse my advice if it is too basic or off the mark. Did the home >user check their browser settings? All the check boxes on the LAN >settings page (Settings, Control Panel, Internet Options, Connections) >should be unchecked according to the AT&T instructions. I reviewed the >settings from the auto configuration and found that the network settings >were identical to my manual settings. However, my browser LAN settings >were not changed by the auto configuration; the box to "Automatically >detect settings" was still checked. > >I successfully switched over last night after 30 minutes of mucking >about. I have a Win98 PII and use IE5.5. I used their automatic >configuration software first, with no immediate success. I restored my >old settings, returned to the AT&T site, and used the manual configuration >instructions, with no immediate success. In both instances, I received >brief DHCP error messages after launching the browser. I called their >help line only to hear pre-recorded messages that were no help. I never >reached a tech and was never given the opportunity to talk to a live >person. I finally gave up in frustration and started to use MS >Word. After 10-15 minutes, my cable modem gave a chime and indicated that >I had a good cable connection. I was able to connect immediately to both >the Internet and my email account. The download speed seemed better, but >that may be due to the lack of current users. > >Hope this proves useful. Good luck to your home user. > >Nick > >At 08:52 AM 12/4/2001 -0800, tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote: >>Does anyone have any general recommendations for Berkeley users of 2home >>who must switch to ATT? >> >>I have a user at his home who is having trouble reconfiguring. >> >>Thanks, >> >>TC >> >> >>-- >>Ted Crum >>tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu > > >Nicholas Phelps >HRMS Project Team >University of California, Berkeley >2001 Addison St, Rm 116 >Berkeley, Ca 94720-1526 > >Ph. 510.643.1013 >Fax 510.643.3531 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: > >For information about Micronet, its meetings and events, and its >mailing list, including information on subscribing and unsubscribing, >see the Micronet Web site at . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: For information about Micronet, its meetings and events, and its mailing list, including information on subscribing and unsubscribing, see the Micronet Web site at . ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Next message: Lee Friedman: "RE: ATT/@home" * Previous message: Sherry M. 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