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Of course I want to *%^& well stay connected!
June 5, 2008 12:53 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

HALP PLZ! I'm a wireless girl on a MacBook. I'm staying at a friend's house and have hooked my computer up to her DSL connection. An annoying Internet Connect dialogue box keeps poping up saying: "This is your reminder that your connection is still active. Do you wish to remain connected?" so I have to click "Stay connected" every fifteen minutes. It's a kind of slow torture that's driving me crazy and I can't turn it off.

I've Googled this problem already and have ended up on a few Mac forums - all of which have given me the following advice:

Do the following:

1) Go to System Preferences
2) Open Network, click "Show"
3) Under Modem (Internal or otherwise) select the PPP Tab.
4) In the PPP Window there will be a button PPP Options
5) When you click that, you will get a list of checkboxes, one of which is
"Prompt every X minutes to maintain connection".

Uncheck. Presto!

That's great except when I click "Show" there is no option for modem, internal or otherwise and no PPP window and therefore no PPP Options.

What do I do? I'm going to lose it any minute now.
posted by heffalump to computers & internet (5 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
it's on the Network page. Second pull down menu. What do you see there?

(i think you should ignore that "Show" part I don't to do that on my Mac following those steps.)
posted by miles1972 at 1:16 AM on June 5, 2008


Bluetooth, Built in Ethernet, Built in Firewire, Airport, Network Port Configurations.
posted by heffalump at 1:20 AM on June 5, 2008


If it is DSL, you will be connected via built in ethernet, not the internal modem. (I don't even think macbooks have a modem any more.) So try looking under PPP options for ethernet. I don't actually see anything about PPP options there but I'm also not using PPP.

miles1972: I think "show" refers to the label to the left of that pull down menu.
posted by advil at 3:11 AM on June 5, 2008


is the wireless base station an Apple-branded AirPort unit, or something else?

it's been a while since I used an Apple base station, but they used to do some magic so modem/DSL messages from the base station would show up on Apple clients... if it's an Apple base station it might be worth taking a look in the AirPort Admin Utility (in the Utilities folder in Applications) to see if there's an "always stay connected" option that needs turning on for the base station...
posted by russm at 3:15 AM on June 5, 2008


Oooh! I figured it out. FINALLY! If anyone needs help with this, click PPPoE and then PPoE Options and a little window comes down and you can unclick the offending prompt! Thanks, guys!
posted by heffalump at 3:21 AM on June 5, 2008


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