DSL Connection Screen

Either on completion of the Internet Connection Wizard (ICW) or pervoking the connection with an Internet application or manually you'll see the following screen.

• Your username will be displayed as Username@dsl.wincom.net
• Fill in your password is you wish
• Leaving a checkmark in the save password box is convient
• WinXP is multi user so restricting the password is up to you

If there's something wrong with the connection, ie fails to connect or connects but unable to browse. You may have to observe the Properties of this connection if the issue cannot be resulved via the username or pasword.

General

• Service Name: (it does not have any relevance towards the fuction of your connection)
• Show icon in notification area when connected. This feature is convient for keeping an eye on the status of the curent connection.

Options

• Dialing Options
• Display progress while connecting. (personal prefference)
• Prompt for name and password, certificate, etc.
• Include Windows logon domain. (Turned off, you may fail to connect if this is on)
• Redialing options
• Redial Attempts: 3 (default)
• Time between redial attempts: 1 minute (default)
• Idle time before hanging up: never (default)
• Redial if line is dropped. (checkmark for convience)

Security

• Security options
• Typical (recommended settings)
  Validate my identity as follows:
  Allow unsecured password

Networking

• Type of broadband connection to make:
  Point-to-Point over Ethernet (PPPoE)
• This connection uses the following items:
  Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) required, should be checkmarked
  QoS Packet Scheduler not required, recommended to uninstall

Advanced

• Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)
• In most cases it is safe to turn off the ICF. Do not confuse ICF with Antivirus software. ICF cannot stop trojans, viruses, and worms from getting on your computer. ICF interfeer with other Internet software, possibly make them not responcive on the net.
• Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
• This allows you to share your Internet connection to other computers in your home/office network just like an Internet Router/Gateway. It is recommended to have two (2) Network Interface Cards (NIC) to support this properly. The USB DSL modems that we supply can be considered as a NIC.
• It is also good to have Establish a dial-up connection whenever ... turned on when you have ICS turned on also. Otherwise the computer that is sharing the connection will not connect on demand.
• The Allow other network users to control the connection is a personal preference, recommended to be turned off.