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There are many users using dial-up connectivity to connect to the Internet for a variety of reasons with the most frequent that broadband has not been enabled in there area. The second is for connecting overseas or when travelling, if the latter is the case we urge you to look at iPass, you could significantly reduce your bills whilst increasing your productivity and efficiency to work online. Dial-up is a means of connecting to the Internet over standard copper wire, until recently this was the only method to connect. Whilst it is more expensive and considerably slower than the now conventional method it allows you to connect anywhere there is a telephone copper line. This service can also be used for free to backup your ADSL connection and still be issued the same ip address. Advantages Dial-Up does have its advantages even in the year 2008, with broadband you need to purchase a router which can be expensive. With dial-up the only piece of hardware required is a modem, until recently these were installed freely with computers and required no setup to work once it was told what number to dial and username and password to login with. Dial-Up will work with telephone lines which broadband my have difficulty receiving the signal sent from the exchange. Dis-advantages Dial-Up does have its disadvantages as well, if you use the service to connect all the time you will notice your phone bill becomes expensive. With Dial-Up you pay for the time connected and not the amount of data sent. The other disadvantage is the speed experienced, there are methods of increasing Dial-Up such as Onspeed which compresses your pages and allows you to experience 2Mb/s, however dial-up is offered at 52kb/s with the base broadband connections offered at 512kb/s. A simple guide to Dial up So you want to use dial up? Well this guide is idiot proof and will help you get setup. You don’t need to be an expert on a computer to use this guide. It is a step by step guide to helping you get online Tools you will need before we start · Internal modem (all computers will have this) · A working telephone line (needs to be active) · Telephone cable (this will connect from the modem on your computer to the phone line Step One Make sure you connected your internal modem to the phone line before continuing Press the start button (this is located in the bottom left corner) then click on the control panel Step Two Click on view classic mode, this can be found on the left hand side Open the network connections icon. this can be open by double clicking network icon. Step Three A new window will appear. on the left hand side you will see the following Create a new connection Change Windows firewall
Select Create a new connection Step Four A dialog box will popup which will say " Welcome to the new connections wizard. - Click Next
- Select Connect to the Internet, Click Next
- Select set up my connection manually, Click Next
- Select connect using a dial-up modem, Click Next
- In the following box type "Internet Central", Click Next
- In the following box enter: 08456081315, Click Next
- Select anyone's use, Click Next
- Enter username: netcentral
- Password: central
- Confirm Password: central
- Make sure "Use this account name and password when anyone connects to the internet from this computer" is tick and "make "this the default internet connection" is tick. Click Next
- Make sure "Add a shortcut to this connection to my desktop" is ticked, click Finish
Step Five Go back to the desktop and double click on the dial up connection. This will connect you to the internet via dialup.
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