Travel Technology - Simple Way to Configure Win2K Dialup Networking?

Awhile back I had an old laptop with Windows 98, and by using the random keystrike method I eventually stumbled upon a way to use dial-up networking (DUN) from any hotel room. I created two DUN icons on the desktop, one for hotel rooms that required 9-1-800 and one for rooms that required 8-1-800 dialing.

My fancy new laptop has Windows 2K Pro, which seems to have a new improved replacement for DUN. Doubtless it has many wonderful capabilities, but all I need is to dial this string (slightly munged)(from 9+ hotel rooms):

,9,,1,,8005559682,,,,<access code>,,,5124759996

Can someone tell me how to get this dial sequence into an icon on the desktop? In real life I'm often the go-to person for computer problems, but I don't do modems.

Thank you mucho!

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Middle_Seat

I'm not sure what type network you're dialing into, but you might want to experiment as follows:

Start -> Settings -> Network and Dialup Connections -> Make New Connection

You can make 2 connections, one with the "9" prefix, the other without.

You can copy each connection to your desktop as a shortcut.

By editing the "Properties" of each connection you can modify the parameters. Perhaps a simple script file would do the trick.

I'm trying to dial into an ISP which has only the one 512-area-code access line. You have to use the 800 number and access code to dial into town, then the 512-475-9996 number to get into the computers.

The difficulty lies in the commas, which are used to insert time delays. The Windows networking wizard doesn't really care for them in some places in the dial string, places where they need to be to make the thing work.

I was hoping there was a way to insert the one big string of numbers and commas. I may have to re-learn scripting to get that done, or use manual dialing.

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Middle_Seat

Have you tried doing this by treating it as a "calling card" under "Dialing Rules"?

Try adding your 1-800 number as a user-defined calling card, then have the network connection dial the 512 local number.

Windows should automatically address the necessary pauses that the commas in your script perform.