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![]() IMPORTANT
So you already have an Internet Access Account with Telstra Big PondŽ Home and you want to setup a second or subsequent PC to allow you to connect? For this procedure to work, you should have Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 3.x fully installed on your PC. (If you aren't sure if you do, insert the Telstra Big Pond Home Internet Access Kit CD in your drive and run setup.exe). This procedure configures Microsoft Internet Explorer to allow you to connect to the Telstra Big Pond Home Service. Please Note: This procedure does NOT create an Internet Access Account. If you do not have an Internet Access Account with Telstra Big Pond Home yet, click here to apply. Before you can correctly configure your PC, you need to know a few things;
Your Username and Password should already be known to you, a list of our current POP locations is included here. In addition to the above items, you will need the following information;
Configuration Instructions 1. Configuring your PC to access the
Telstra Big Pond Home Service is easy using the Microsoft Internet Setup Wizard. Locate
the "Microsoft Internet Explorer" Group in Program Manager and double-click the
Icon titled New Connection. Please Note: The Icon titled "Get on the
Internet" will lead you through the steps of creating a new account rather than
simply configuring your PC. If the icon is missing, from the Program Manager select
the FILE menu, and then select the RUN command. Now type ICWMAN16.EXE as the name of the
file that you wish to run. Click OK. 2. Enter a Name for the new
connection object you are creating. 3. Enter the Area Code and Telephone
Number of the Telstra Big Pond Home POP (Dial-In Point) you wish to call. 4. Enter the Username and Password
of your existing Telstra Big Pond Home account. 5. The Telstra Big Pond Home Service
automatically assigns your PC an address each time your connect, leave this option set as
indicated. 6. Domain Name Servers DNS are devices which perform translation between the numeric addresses which are used by computers and the names which are more commonly used by Internet users. The Telstra Big Pond Home DNS's are 139.134.2.2
and 139.134.2.18, enter these two DNS addresses as shown. Back to the Setup page. 7. The next part of the Setup helps
you configure electronic mail, if you want to read Email from this PC leave this screen as
indicated. 8.To automatically pass your
Username and Password to the Mail Server when you connect, enter your Telstra Big Pond
Home Username and Password here. 9. You now enter your electronic
mail details. 10. The next part of the Setup helps
you configure electronic news, if you want to read Usenet News from this PC leave this
screen as indicated. 11. The Telstra Big Pond Home News
server does not require you to use a Username or Password to connect. Leave the Username
and Password fields blank. You do however have to enter the address of the Telstra
Big Pond Home News server, it is news.bigpond.com. 12. This finishes the Microsoft
Internet Setup Wizard, click Finish to finish the Setup process. Back to the Setup page. POP Locations:
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The Telstra Big
Pond Home Service is provided by On Australia Pty Ltd,
a 100% owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation Ltd.
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