System requirements

PIPEX Dial System requirements


PIPEX Dial is a quality low-cost individual dialup service, using Microsoft Windows. PIPEX Dial is designed for use by existing PIPEX corporate customers who wish to enable mobile or remote employees to access the Internet when not on site, as well as for leisure users and small businesses.

PIPEX Dial comes with three disks of easy-to-install software which contain everything needed for Internet access:

PPP - Full TCP/IP Internet connectivity via a single click connection to a point of presence (PoP)

Mail-It2 - a full copy of Unipalm's Windows unique email product.

Netscape - World Wide Web information browser and newsreader, giving simple hypertext point-and-click access to the Internet's huge resources.

System Requirements

A PC able to run Windows 3.x.

A Hayes compatible modem. (PIPEX can provide these modems if required.)

The Service in operation

PIPEX are initially providing six UK Points of (PoP) for dialup access, with a total of 210 lines: London (60), and Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cambridge (30 each).

With Dynamic Address Allocation, PIPEX Dial users can dial into any of the six PoPs at will, as IP addresses are randomly allocated 'on the fly' from a central pool.

PIPEX Dial costs £180 per annum per machine, paid quarterly in advance in conjunction with payments for other PIPEX Services, and a £50 joining fee which covers all software provided.