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** Q **
Free Internet access for Atarians

I come across many references to the current crop of free internet-access
schemes for PC users, and the give-away CD-ROMs from Dixons, Tandy, and
Tesco. One Atari newsgroup carried a plea from an Atari-user for advice on
how to set up Freeserve ISP with his machine.

Can your boffins outline briefly how we can all do this (perhaps even a
concise article about it)? Yours a bit gormlessly...

Noel Lundgren

** A **

If you or a friend has a web connection with a secure browser, go to:

https://signup.freeserve.net

If you are using STinG and CAB (does CAB support secure pages?) the phone
number in STinG is 08450796699, username is 'freeservesignup', password is
'signup', nameservers are 194.152.64.68 and 194.152.64.25.

STinG needs to be set NOT to use a script - you probably need to enter
those names and passwords under PAP-ID and PAP-PASSWORD.

Once you are on the page, you can set your preferred username and
password. Apparently one should not end by clicking the button which says
Finished because that starts downloading a file which is irrelevant. Just
quit the browser and connection.

Now you need to enter your own details into STinG and your email client.
For some reason freeserve has its addresses ending in both .co.uk and .net
- I'm not sure if these are completely interchangable. Try what I have
below, and change if it doesn't work.

Phone number as before, PAP-ID username.freeserve.co.uk, PAP-Password is
your chosen password. Hostname is freeserve.co.uk. Your SMTP address for
sending mail is smtp.freeserve.net

Your POP3 mailbox address for receiving mail may depend on your precise
system. You may need an address of pop.freeserve.net and an account name
of username.freeserve.co.uk, but I do know of systems where what you need
to enter is [e-mail] - experiment.

Daniel Cohen, CIX ataricomputing conference

** A **

The Reader Disk includes a STinG script which assumes you have already
created the above details by logging on to freeserve using a friend's pc
and the freeserve cd.

Apparently it is also possible to do this without the Freeserve cd, which
should mean that you can do if using an Atari. From the freeserve
conference here on CIX:

To signup to Freeserve without a cd and without changing any existing
settings?

Enter freeservesignup for your username and signup for your password. Ok
it and it will go online, wait until you get a connection and start up
your browser (any browser that handles a secure connection should work).

Enter this URL: https://signup.freeserve.net (the http*s* is crucial)

Sign up online

When you've finished that you'll have a username and password and it will
prompt you to download a file, either refuse, or download it and delete it
later (it also contains your password).

Andrew Harvey, CIX


All the free services are concerned that people might signup with a false
name, use it for spam or offensive messages, and then disappear.
Freeserve's solution (I don't know the technicalities) is that the phone
number from which you are calling must respond to Caller ID.

Daniel

The main problem as far as Atari users are concerned is that CAB (at
least, for v2.5 and CAB.OVL v1.3014 beta) doesn't handle secure links so
even if the on-line scripting wasn't a problem the secure link side of
things would be.

To the best of my knowledge, the only way you can access Freeserve on an
Atari is to have someone with a PC and IE set up your account. Once you
have that, you're laughing because all of the settings are standard.

Keith Jackson

** A **

Edit STinG's DEFAULT.CFG and DIAL.SCR with your details. The DEFAULT.CFG
file on the Reader Disk is in the progress of being "tweaked" for best
performance, with the original values commented out for reference. Change
modem port etc to suit your system.

If you'd like to be able to log in to another ISP as well, proceed as
follows:

Copy the DIAL.SCR to the same directory, renaming it to reflect the name
of the ISP that you want to log in to. Then list the details of your proxy
servers under "Network Environment", see the DEFAULT.CFG file for the
required format. Change phone numbers and password details and so on to
suit. Now you can select this script in the STinG dialer by clicking in
the "Dial script" line at the top of the "Configs" menu.

If you're experiencing problems making a successful connection:

It might be that your ISP doesn't use a PAP (Password Authenticated
Protocol) connection. Try connecting with a terminal program with logging
turned on, and respond to each of the questions with the details given to
you by your ISP. Most likely you'll be asked for your login name and
password, once you've logged in completely the screen should fill with
indecipherable characters. Shut down the connection and edit the
appropriate dial script referring to your log for details. There's an
example script on the Reader Disk called EXSCRIPT.ASC.

If you've made a successful connection to your ISP (the STinG dialer
reports "Link established" and "Success", but CAB seems to freeze with the
message "Resolving host" proceed as follows:

Double check that you're using a STinG-compatible overlay. Double check
the proxy server details in the DEFAULT.CFG or DIAL.SCR (where
appropriate). Proxy server details in CAB listed under "Server/Proxy" may
not be current however if overridden by others set in the DIAL.SCR.

If you're using the latest CAB overlay and there's a delay when browsing
through your offline cache:

Load the dialer into memory alongside CAB. Single TOS users can rename the
STinG dialer with an ACC extender and load it as an accessory - a
recommended course of action anyway (you will need to copy the STING.INF
file into the root directory of your boot disk as well). Or use Olivier
Booklage's overlay version from 5.4000 onwards available from:

http://194.2.128.248/vcf-com/download/cabovl.lzh

Derryck Croker, CIX ataricomputing conference