dail up problem

[leo9902]

i have broadband at home but take my laptop to work where i have to use dailup. not had a problem with it before but today when i dialled up it got as far as verifiying name and password but then said it was taking to long and to redial which the same thing happened again and each time i tried it after that, pressed info or similar and gave three reasons what could be causing it but went through them all and it was nt any of them. on my laptop its free isp to dial up which some one put on for me, i used to have a bt one but not sure how to put that on either as no expert on computers so any help apprieciated with my problem.

[maviscoull]

im not too sure but what it could be but check your internet connection to see if your free dialup is set to default. i find it hard to explain things like this but if you have windows xp on your laptop try the following :
start--- connect to----show all connections and click on this. now you need to make sure that the dialup your laptop uses has a tick, if not then you need to make this your default connection........hope ive got that right, if not im sure someone will correct me !! lol

[alunrw]

it could also be that the ISP you use for dial up was
down for maintenance or just a general fault at their end - you could check their site to view a status report?

[Garamond]

Being a holiday they may've been busy.

[leo9902]

thanks for all your answers just not sure how to get on there site to get status report as just says free isp on the dail up icon sorry if seem bit thick but just begginer .