Things You Need to Know

GENERAL SETTINGS - WINDOWS 95
Configuring your modem to connect to
Optraweb Internet Solutions

1. Click on your button (where you start all your programs from).

• Click on Programs.
• Click on Accessories.
• Click on Dial-Up Networking.
• You should then have a screen similar to below.

• Point on the Optraweb Internet Icon and press your right mouse button.
• Click on Properties on the popup menu that appears.

• Your screen will look a little different if you are using the earlier release of Windows 95, there will be a button instead of a row of Tabs up top for Server Types and Scripting is not on this screen.
• Ensure the "Area code" is left blank.
• You can change the "Telephone number" to the dialin number you were given upon signing up.
• "Country code" should be set to Australia (61).
• Click on the Configure button.

• Ensure that you have your modem configured to the correct "Port".
• "Maximum speed" should usually be set as follows:
  33.6 modem 38400
  28.8 modem 38400
  14.4 modem 19200
  9600 modem 9600

• The defaults on this page should not be changed.
• (A) Click on the Advanced button to change your modem initialization string.
• (B) Click on the Port Setting button to change your port settings.

• In the "Extra settings" is where you put our recommended initialization string.
• "Use flow control" should be checked and set to "Hardware (RTS/CTS)" by default.
  Click the OK button.

• "Use FIFO buffers (requires 16550compatible UART)" should be checked and set to default by clicking on the Defaults button
• Click the OK button.

• Click on the Options tab.
• There should be no tick on either "Bring up terminal window before dialing" or" Bring up terminal window after dialing".
• "Display modem status" should be checked.
• Click the OK button

• Click on the Server type tab or button.
• The only ticks that should be on this page are "Enable software compression" and" TCP/IP".
• Click the TCP/IP settings button.

• There should be a dot in front of "Server assigned IP" address and "Server assigned name server addresses".
• There should be a tick in front of "Use IP header compression" and "Use default gateway" on remote network.
• If your computer is connected on a Local Area Network you may need to talk to your Network Administrator.
• Click on the OK button.

• Click on the scripting tab if there is a tab for it otherwise ignore this bit.
• Ensure there is nothing in "File name" for "Script file".
• Click on the OK button

Close the Dial-Up networking folder.