780 mobilepro

am i able to connect to the internet via the modem?
are there any decent web sites i can go to for software?
thanks!

No...none.


Just joking. My favorite: http://www.yetanotherhomepage.com/j7xx/j7xx.html

Just follow the links to the authors site and look for the MIPS version of the software.

Rich

The modem does work, and if you have dial-up access you can generally connect to and browse the net, however secure sites on the 780 do NOT work. I've heard of and tried every workaround for this which this and the other decent forums offered and I'm afraid that you won't have any luck if you want to do banking or hotmail or the like. That being said, the screen is excellent and performance quite acceptable for dial-up web browsing.

Have fun!
Guyturf

If you go to the NEC support site for the 780 You will find a DLL file you can download for going on secure pages

Have to beg to differ, I've tried the updates, the dll improvements etc...

Still can't do secure sites like banking and hotmail.

Guyturf

Yeah, it may not be a problem with PIE security, though. Some secure sites just check what version of IE you're running (and PIE reports itself as IE 3.0 I think - maybe 4.0?) and refuse to connect if your browser is too old. Banks in particular do this apparently.

H/PC Pro reports as 3.02.