Help Documents: Configuring Windows 9X (Manually)

Adding the Dial-Up-Networking Icon

• Double-Click on the My Computer icon on your desktop.
  

• Double-Click on the Dial-Up Networking icon.
• Once "inside", Double-Click on the Make New Connection icon.
  

• Choose a name for this connection, "Islandnet" is common
• Make sure your modem is selected in the pull-down selection box
  

• Selecting Next will then prompt you for the phone number
  

• Make sure the area code is correct and choose from the following cities for the number:

  Victoria:            380-4731
  Duncan:              715-0696
  Nanaimo:             741-8995
  Qualicom/Parksville: 468-7457
  

• Select the Next button to continue
  

• Most people want the icon to reside on the desktop, follow along to put a copy there.
• You will now have an Islandnet icon in the Dial-Up-Networking folder, simply Click (and hold) and drag it to your desktop.
  

• You will be told that you cannot move the icon there...
  

• Click Yes.

Connecting and Disconnecting

• Double-Click on the Shortcut to Islandnet on your desktop.
  

• A Connect To box will appear asking you to enter your User name and Password.
  • Enter your username followed by %ppp
• Click on the Connect button.
  

• The following boxes will appear during the logging-in process.
  

  

• The window will shrink down to your system tray and appear as two small computers.
  

• You're connected!

• Now you would launch whatever Internet application you desire, ie: a web browser, E-mail applications, etc...

• To disconnect, Double-Click on the icon in your system tray, Click on the Disconnect button.