How to dialup AUTOMATICALLY and start a second program AUTOMATICALLY

11 Jun 2009 9:56 AM

Kevin McNeal

Unlike on my desktop computer I am using on my Notebook a HDSPA modem to connect to Internet.
Unfortunately I always have to do this manually by selecting menu

Start->Settings->Network-Connections

and finally the actual Provider entry (snapshot see here:

http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/06/11/01/57/3955679_348x286.png

How can I tell WinXP to dialup AUTOMATICALLY this Provider if no other connection (e.g. WLAN/LAN)
is currently available?

I don't want to click a lot of menus and dialog boxes. If I type in the browser e.g.an URL
www.google.com and my computer is not connected via other network connections then this modem
dialup should automatically occur.

Furthermore I would appreciate to let WinXP start automatically immediately after successful dialin
another program (e.g. email checker, traffic monitor,...).
How can I achieve this?

Can I call the dialup prgm from command line? In this case I could put everything into a batch script.

Kevin

11 Jun 2009 11:32 AM

Philip Herlihy

Kevin McNeal wrote:
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> Unlike on my desktop computer I am using on my Notebook a HDSPA modem to connect to Internet.
> Unfortunately I always have to do this manually by selecting menu
>
> Start->Settings->Network-Connections
>
> and finally the actual Provider entry (snapshot see here:
>
> http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/06/11/01/57/3955679_348x286.png
>
> How can I tell WinXP to dialup AUTOMATICALLY this Provider if no other connection (e.g. WLAN/LAN)
> is currently available?
>
> I don't want to click a lot of menus and dialog boxes. If I type in the browser e.g.an URL
> www.google.com and my computer is not connected via other network connections then this modem
> dialup should automatically occur.
>
> Furthermore I would appreciate to let WinXP start automatically immediately after successful dialin
> another program (e.g. email checker, traffic monitor,...).
> How can I achieve this?
>
> Can I call the dialup prgm from command line? In this case I could put everything into a batch script.
>
> Kevin
>

Internet Options (available in Control Panel and in the menus of IE)
allow you to set up a "default" (dialled) connection, and to configure
the machine to dial it when no other network is available. It'll
usually dial up automatically when a network connection is requested by
a program, such as IE or Outlook.

You can use rasdial to make the connection from a batch file; see:
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread1683.html

Phil, London