The following instructions will allow you to set up, or trouble-shoot
where necessary, a dialup connection on MacOS X.
The first part of setting up or checking the configuration of your
Linknet connection is to set the dialup information. Follow these
steps:
- Click the Apple icon
- Click System Preferences:
- Click on the Network icon:
- Select Configure: Using PPP
- Under Domain Name Servers, enter:
202.162.96.5
202.162.96.6
- Under Search Domains, enter linknet.com.au
- Click PPP:
- Enter "Linknet" for your Service Provider
- Enter the Linknet dialup number 6639 8300
- Enter your Linknet username and password
- Tick Save Password (unless you want to have to type it each
time)
- Click PPP Options:
- Configure the different Session Options as preferred (you will
probably want "Connect automatically" ticked)
- Tick "Send PPP echo packets" & "Use TCP
header compression" in Advanced Options
- Make sure that "Connect using a terminal window"
is NOT ticked
- Click OK
- Click the Proxies tab:
- Make sure that none of the boxes are ticked
- Click Modem:
- Set your settings as above - make sure that the correct modem
is selected. iMac users will usually be using the Apple Internal
modem
- Click Apply Now or Save.
- Click the Apple icon
- Click System Preferences
- Click on the Internet icon
- Click Email:
- Select your Email program from the list (usually Outlook Express)
- Set your email address to your Linknet address: eg. username@linknet.com.au
- Set Incoming mail server to: pop.linknet.com.au
- Select POP for the Account Type
- Set the User Account ID to your Linknet login name (usually
the first part of your email address)
- Enter your Password
- Set Outgoing mail server to: smtp.linknet.com.au
- Click Web:
- Select your Web browser from the list (usually Internet Explorer)
- Set your homepage to http://www.linknet.com.au or whatever
you prefer
- You can set the search page and location to download files
according to your preference (this is not required, so if you
do not know what to put, just leave it)
- Click News:
- Select your news program from the list (usually Outlook Express)
- Set News server to: news.linknet.com.au
- Select Connect As: Guest
- Leave the other sections blank
- Close the Internet window.
You're done! You might like to download the latest update for MacOS
X from Apple's Download site here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/,
as the new updates fix a lot of problems present in the initial
release of MacOS X.
If you have any problems, contact Support on (02) 6684 3345 or
email support@linknet.com.au
and they will be happy to help you out.
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