Windows 95/98 Dial-Up Networking Setup

The optimum settings for your DNS is to select "Server Assigned Name Server Addresses". There are several advantages in being "Server Assigned", the biggest of which is the ability for us to direct your DNS dynamically to the "best" location for the given conditions.

We provide step by step instructions (following), and ask that you perform these modifications to your settings A.S.A.P.

Step 1

On your main Windows 95/98 screen double-click on "My Computer".

Step 2

Double-click on the "Dial-Up Networking" icon.

Step 3

Locate the dialer which you typically use. This may be titled "internet" as ours is in the following picture, or "qcislands net". Single right-click on this icon.

Step 4

Single left-click on "Properties".

Step 5

Your previous left-click should show a screen similar to this. The name of the modem may be different, you may not have a telephone area code entered and you may have a "server types" tab off to the side rather than on the top, but the function of the screen is essentially the same.

Step 6

"Un-click" the 'Use area code and Dialing Properties' box (if it is presently selected). Click on the "Server Types" tab.

Step 7

A lot of the boxes in the following screen may presently be ticked. ALL should be unticked except "TCP/IP". Then click on the "TCP/IP Settings" box.

Step 8

You may have numbers entered under the "Primary DNS" and "Secondary DNS", and that's okay.. you can leave them there. The important thing is to select "Server assigned name server addresses" selection. The numbers which may be there will be grayed out. The "Server assigned IP address" should also be selected.

Now click enough 'OK's to close all those screens, and your task is complete.