Using wireless connection, 'choose a network connection' box appears

[JudyM]

My wireless connection works, but the above 'network connections popup often (not always) appears when I attempt to access a site. It gives me a dropdown of dialup access numbers. I must then close the popup and retry the URL I'm trying to reach. This happens about 30% of the time, and seems to run in clusters, meaning that some days it never happens and other days it happens constantly. The computer's configured to use the dialup only when the wireless connection is absent, so I can't find the problem. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Computer:Toshiba M35

[trotsky]

1. Couple of questions

1) Do you need to run it with that fallback setting enabled? I have found that it's just not very reliable, so I always set machines to "Never dial". Manual connect if necessary.

2) How's your wireless signal strength? Your card must have come with some diagnostic utilities - do they report any issues?

[JudyM]

4. I'll check out your #1; my wireless signal strength shows as good

the only thing that comes up as failing when I run the network diagnostic is a message that my IP address isn't responding when pinged.

Thanks for your response!

[footinmouth]

2. I finally set mine to "never dial"

That box was coming up for me everytime my connection crapped out, even if it was just a brief outage. I'm on a cable modem, but from time to time it just quits.

[JudyM]

3. thanks - I'll give that a try!