Internet Connect

[Dekatophil]

Wasn't able to get hold of 10.1 yet.
I wonder whether they did anything with "Internet Connect", in my eyes the worst app in the whole of OS X.
Why, it normally takes 15-20 tries for me to get online. This may be my ISP's fault, it has also sth. to do with the poor quality of my telephone line. Okay.
But why the heck does IC stop short every time it doesn't detect a carrier ?
It pops up an annoying error message "No carrier detected" aut sim. For ... sake I know that ! Just keep on trying. It's such a waste of time, because it means I have to stay in front of the computer, click away the error message and reconnect. Isn't there a way to make it do so automatically ? I guess it wd be only obvious and natural to let the app try until it does connect. After all, if I say "connect" that's probably what I'd like to do. Why this idiotic error messages ? They belong in the log file. It's really hard to believe for me that Apple have build such a crappy app. The Mac is all about convenience clever design, functionality. And they do a great job at that, normally. I do not know who has thrown together that app, but it's most certainly the worst of it's kind I've ever seen and probably the worst thinkable. Does anybody have a work around for that ?
For the future, I'd ask Apple to concern themselves just a little bit more with us poor dial-uppers...

[AdmiralAK]

In 10.1 there is a menuling (right next to the time) that you can use to dial up

As for the carrier problem, make sure that you dont have "detect carrier" checked. If you do it tried to detect a carrier before dialing.

As for 15-20 tries to connect...cant help you there. Might be your ISP. My ISP gives me weird errors like authentication error from time to time and I do not know why. Usually its fixed by rebooting. Oh well at least I know how to fix it.

[Britney F.]

I agree Internet Connect sucks! For 10.0.4 there is a Freeware app called PPP Monitor. This is a great little app and can be found at http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml However it has not been updated for 10.1 yet. I hope it is soon.

AdmiralAK - I didn't realize there is a menuling for IC. How did you get it to appear?

Britney

[AdmiralAK]

Open the control panels and go into networking. There is a checkbox to have it show up in the menu bar.

[CEMatt]

Strange...I was just fixing to post the question of why I could connect so much better with 10.0.4 than under 9.2.1.

I use the ISP, EarthLink, and it is frustrating how many times I have to redial to get a connection when booted from OS 9.2.1...yet when I boot my OS 10.0.4 partition, an Earthlink connection is ALWAYS made on the first attempt...not only that, but the connection stays made even when I'm idle...a complete puzzle to me.

I have a G4/466/512MB RAM and was about ready to drop Earthlink until I noted how well it worked under OSX. I am almost afraid to post this for fear my bubble will burst.

Matt

[Dekatophil]

AdmiralAK, thanks for the tip. Where can I disable the "detect carrier option" ?
You know, what really annoys me is that completely pointless popping up of error messages. It shd just stay on trying.
Britney F. thanks for the link ! I'll definitely check it out.

[AdmiralAK]

I am not on an OS X machine now so I will try to do this from memory
Go into the control pane and go into network. There is a button caller prefs or options in the same place where you choose your modem type. Click on the options button and that is where the disable carrier detection is located (its the same palce where you set redialing options)

Hope this helps

Admiral

[Dekatophil]

I'm afraid there is no such option. I can see the redial options and all. Nothing about "carrier" though. I'm still on a 10.4 machine. Maybe the "disable carrier" option has only been added later ?