software using dial up instead of wireless broadband

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Did you check the "Symantec web site"? How about "Symantec's 'help &
support'" for configuring "autoupdates"? How about "How Live Update
accesses the internet" in the "Live Update Applet" in control panel? By
default Norton's "Live Update" uses IE's default connection - so somewhere
along the line, you've had to have changed it.

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"Adit Shah" <aditshah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0641BEA6-F341-4875-B7CA-6D5F1D48CEC1@microsoft.com...
> I have 2 machines connected to a router and then to cable modem. On my
> laptop, the setup seems to work well with almost all software applications
> but there are some applications that use the dial up connection to access
the
> internet instead of the available broadband connection. An example is
Norton
> Antivirus 2004. When it runs Live Update, it uses a dial up connection
> instead of the wireless broadband connection. Is there a setting that I
can
> change so that this doesn't happen anymore? Thanks.

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"Adit Shah" <aditshah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The problem isn't isolated to Norton antivirus, I was using it as an
> example.
> There are a couple of other programs that also dial out instead of using
> the
> broadband connection. That leads me to think that it is a XP issue.
>
> Adit
>
> "Admiral Q" wrote:
>
>> Did you check the "Symantec web site"? How about "Symantec's 'help &
>> support'" for configuring "autoupdates"? How about "How Live Update
>> accesses the internet" in the "Live Update Applet" in control panel? By
>> default Norton's "Live Update" uses IE's default connection - so
>> somewhere
>> along the line, you've had to have changed it.
>>
>> --
>> Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!
>>
>>
>> "Adit Shah" <aditshah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:0641BEA6-F341-4875-B7CA-6D5F1D48CEC1@microsoft.com...
>> > I have 2 machines connected to a router and then to cable modem. On my
>> > laptop, the setup seems to work well with almost all software
>> > applications
>> > but there are some applications that use the dial up connection to
>> > access
>> the
>> > internet instead of the available broadband connection. An example is
>> Norton
>> > Antivirus 2004. When it runs Live Update, it uses a dial up connection
>> > instead of the wireless broadband connection. Is there a setting that I
>> can
>> > change so that this doesn't happen anymore? Thanks.
>>
>>
Hi Adit,

You might wanna change the internet options on this. Go into your internet
explorer, click tools, options. Here click the Connections tab and change
the settings to "Never dial a connection".

This should work for everything internet based, except Outlook. Outlook has
it's own settings for this.

I hope this helped,

Cheers,

Robert