I have a few dial-up configs, to choose one you either tick one from
a list under the dial up menu, top right of menu bar in Finder and
then click connect. The tick stays there. Is that it? Is that the
only indication I am really connected to the one I want (three hrs
down the track I have sometimes forgotten!)
I go to the Internet Connection panel, Internal Modem panel and it
shows Main Number! (Not the one I may be connected to). All others
are greyed out. Status at bottom is "Connected to 203.etc (This IP
number is useless to me).
Surely this is bad software mistake? It should show the particular
connection under the modem tab and not default to main number when
the main number is not being used and one is actually connected? The
options are live (not greyed) when not connected and one can then
use them instead of the Main Number.
But it is the lack of info (except that measly greyed out tick on
the greyed out menu item) when connected that I am wondering about?
In the main system prefs and network panel one can see the number of
the ISP one is connected to, but that is still not enough info if
one has a number of accounts on the same ISP.
I once used an alternate Configuration in the Internet Connect app to
specify dialing my ISP from another location. Well, it worked fine
the first time I told it to connect and then the next time it
defaulted back to the Main number. Well the "Main" number was for my
home town but I hadn't included the area code. So in this other
location elsewhere in California that same number with the different
local area code also dialed my ISP but at the other end of a fairly
large area code. So it was not only long distance but several long
calls (I was also sharing the connection wirelessly). So instead,
now I use a different location in the Network Preference Pane.
This is a deficiency of the dialup procedure in OS X. As far as I
can tell it treats other numbers in Internet Connect like alternate
numbers to the main. For one thing this is not how it worked in OS 9
where the PPP control strip did allow you to setup different numbers
for the same ISP and which ever you selected last stayed selected.
In X I'd rather see the Location selection specify the ISP and
Internet Connect (and it's menu) let you specify the POP number /
location you want to use (and not have a "main" number). While
changing Location isn't too bad, my wireless and other connections
are usually not used in these cases, I just don't see it as necessary
in any way.
Most of the time I operate out of a single Location for wireless,
wired or cell phone. It's only when I use the modem I need to switch
it. And it's a little ironic as I almost never use dialup to my home
town POP.
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