Ok, here's the problem, I recently went from a Cable Connection back down to a dial-up connection before Inet App worked fine, now when I connect using dial-up the only program that recognizes I have a Inet connection established is IE. Dos Ping doesn't even recognize a connection. I'm kinda stumped on this one, never had anything like this occur before. Any suggetions?

Search for this file PING.exe in the c:\windows\ if it is there, the ping command should work. Hope this helps. bye

Sorry maybe I didn't phrase my question correctly. Ping does work it just doesn't recongnize the dial-up Internet connection once one is established. It is giving me the error when I ping www.microsoft.com Pinging www.microsoft.akadns.net [207.46.197.102] with 32 bytes of data: PING: transmit failed, error code 65. PING: transmit failed, error code 65. PING: transmit failed, error code 65. PING: transmit failed, error code 65. The only thing that recongnizes that I even am connected to the net is IE. No other Internet Applications will. I was a systems consultant and a tech for 2 yrs, and have never ran across anything like this before.

Well, obviously the PING command DOES recognise the connection since it gives you an IP address for microsoft, it just doesn't know how to ping properly. Maybe it's the drivers that you are using?

Might be, not sure though? I'm using the original drivers from the manufacturer, my Modem is a Newcom 56KifxvC bad thing is the company "Newcom" went out of business a while ago. Anyone else had any problem with XP not working properly with older modems? And does anyone have any suggestions on how I can resolve this problem? (preferrably by not buying a new modem) Thanks