Cannot Browse the Internet Using Internet Explorer While Connected to AOL

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Chaz

127.0.0.1 is just another name for "local host"
or "self". I would say that when you dial up AOL you are
shutting off the port to the DSL Router, and since your
browser is set to connect to the web via the LAN it is
grabbing the only other available address on your
machine.

A couple of possible solutions:

1. Use the DSL connection in tandem with AOL. When you
first start AOL it should let you know an Internet
connection already exists and asks if you want to access
AOL through that connection, to which you should
answer "yes". Why slow yourself down just to access AOL?

2. Set the gateway for all of your network connections
(including AOL if possible) to the DSL router's address,
which I'm guessing is probably 192.168.0.1. By doing this
you are forcing your other connections to look to the DSL
for an Internet connection rather than to AOL, or worse
to the local host (127.0.0.1). This may or may not work,
of course, as AOL dances to the beat of their own drum,
but its worth a shot.
 
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