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Setup instructions

Please follow the below instruction to ensure you can connect to the ZeroNet dialup and e-mail service.

Windows users should go to "Dialup Networking" to create a new Dial-Up account.

Click on "Make a New Connection", call it "ZeroNet".
Select the modem you want from the drop-down box.
Click "Next"
If your system has problems running at 115,000 baud click on "Configure" and choose the setting of 57,600 Bd. If not select 115,000.
Click "OK"
Click "Next"
Enter area code "08453", telephone number "600012", select Country code "United Kingdom (44)".
Tick "Use area code and Dialling Properties"
Click "OK"
Click "Next"
Enter the Connection name: "ZeroNet"
Click on "Finish".
This has established the new Dial-Up number. Now you need to make sure that it will use the appropriate protocols and send the appropriate information.
Go to "My Computer", "Dial-Up Networking" and right-click on "ZeroNet" or whatever you have called the new Dial-Up.
Click on the tab marked "Server Types".
Ensure that only the "TCP/IP" box has a tick - ALL other boxes should be empty (un-ticked).
Click on the tab marked "TCP/IP Settings" and ensure that the following are selected:
"Server assigned IP address" (should have a dot in the box) "Server assigned name server address" (should have a dot in the box) "Use default gateway on remote network" (should have a tick in the box)
The "Use IP header compression" box should be empty.
Click "OK"
Click "OK"
Double-Click on the "ZeroNet" Icon
Enter your user name in the format "username@zeronet.co.uk" (original long term users should use their user number in the - format z100*****@zeronet.co.uk), and your normal ZeroNet Password. Then tick "Save password".
Click "Connect"
Your computer should now dial into the Internet and access the ZeroNet server. You should see a box headed "Connection established".
Click "Close" to close this box.
Close your Internet access - this is usually shown as a pair of small computer screens in the lower right-hand corner of your display.
Right-click on these and click on "Disconnect".
You have now successfully set up a TCP/IP Network to connect you to our Internet service through which you can send and receive e-mails and browse the web.

Your web browser - FireFox, MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, or whatever you use, will also need to know about your new ZeroNet access details.

Most have a "Tools" tab under which you should find something like "Internet Options", which should offer you something like "Default Dial-Up". Select "ZeroNet", or whatever you have called you new service.

Click "OK"