Connecting to the Internet

Connecting a computer running Windows 95 to the Internet consists of the following steps:

• Obtaining an Internet PPP or SLIP account from an access provider (unless you are connecting through an Internet server on your network). PPP is a newer standard and offers more automatic authentication, security, and many other advantages.
• Obtaining account information (such as the user name and password) from the access provider; this is needed to connect to their server.
• Installing and configuring a modem.
• Installing Microsoft TCP/IP by using the Network option in Control Panel.
• Installing Dial-Up Networking and defining a Dial-Up Networking connection to the Internet. If your Internet access provider does not dynamically assign you DNS and IP addresses, you can set these in Dial-Up Networking for each connection you create to the Internet.

  – Or –

  Installing a network adapter and defining an IP address in the network adapter's TCP/IP properties dialog boxes.

• Connecting to the Internet.
• Browsing the Internet by using FTP or Telnet provided with Windows 95, or by using Gopher, Archie, WAIS, and other Web browsers, which are available commercially or as shareware from Internet servers.