Operation Manual

Advanced Configuration and Handling

Now enter the phone number of your provider and the city or area code. Your pro-

vider should have given them to you when you subscribed. Call-by-call providers

usually publish their access numbers in magazines, or you could contact the pro-

vider's hotline to find them out. The following data is for sample purposes only and

does not work for real Internet connections.

7. Finally enter your user-specific details for this connection. Enter your User

name and the associated Password into the corresponding fields. You need to

enter your password twice for verification purposes.

Underneath you can also specify whether other users of this computer are allowed

to use the same connection. If another family member logs on at a later time, she or

he can use your Internet account to establish an Internet connection. Windows also

prompts you if you want this to be the default Internet connection. If you check this

box, Windows will use this connection automatically for all future attempts to re-

trieve e-mails or navigate the Internet.

Finally you can enable the

Windows-internal firewall.

We highly recommend you to

do so. A firewall is a filter that

blocks attacks from external

users to your computer. You

should not lack this protec-

tion.

8. Now your Internet access is almost configured. The last window shows an over-

view of all settings. If you want, you can create a shortcut on your desktop for this

connection. This lets you avoid navigating through the different Windows menus to

access the Internet – you can open your Internet connection by double-clicking the

shortcut icon. You have successfully configured your Internet connection. If you

have created a shortcut on your desktop during the last step, this is the fastest way

to open the Internet connection.