Trying to dial-up without dial tone

[srcfish]

I know i've done this before. Can't figure it out now. A friend has a dial-up modem. His phone has a distinctive dial tone if messages are waiting on his voice mail.

I go to Control Panel > System > Device Manager > Modem > Connection - I turn off WAIT FOR DIAL TONE BEFORE DIALING.

Result - Dial up connection fails.

What have I missed?

[Sabbath]

I don't know the answere to your question but I am curious why you have to set this option. My phone has a unique sound when I have messages but this dosen't affect my dial-up modem.

[darkmallard]

srcfish - Under Connection > click Advanced button. In the "Extra Settings" field, type: X1
This disables dial tone detection.

Sabbath - depending on the modem, voice mail tones often result in "no dial tone detected" messages.

[Sabbath]

Thanks, I didn't know that.

[srcfish]

Tried filling in the extra settings box like you said. Oddly, I can't find an apply button!!

As soon as I exit the modem window the X1 setting disappears?

Any hints?