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- Zetnet: Internet Service Provider
-
- Interested in getting into the Internet but don't know which Internet
- Service Provider to use? Paul Jones tells you about Zetnet...
-
- I found an news snippet in one of the last issues of ST Format about an
- Internet Server which supported the Atari, namely Zetnet. I decided to
- investigate into them. I phoned up the supplied number, and Zetnet sent me
- a 'information pack'. The pack consisted of four parts - a small brouchure
- about the special PC software made by Zetnet, 'What is the Internet'
- leaflet, a price guide and an order form. I read the 'What is the
- Internet' leaflet which briefly descibes the main features on the
- Internet, including email, newsgroups and the World Wide Web.
-
- I filled in the order form, filling in my own prefered email address
- (paulat.jones@zetnet.co.uk), ticking the box for 'full account' and
- lastly, for the computer type I ticked 'Atari'.
-
- A week later I had a package from Zetnet containing a Windows version of
- software, and a registration form, with the wrong password. I complained,
- and Zetnet told me the Atari software will be sent and the password
- corrected for free, and that I could keep the Windows version. A day or so
- later, the Atari software came and a registration form with the right
- details arrived.
-
- I rushed to my computer and installed the software, which might I add very
- easy to use - the installation asked me a path, and then the files on the
- disk were installed onto my hard drive. Supplied in the 'Zetnet Atari
- Access Pack' was CAB v1.5, MGFTP, STiK v1.2, Telnet, NEWSie and AtarIRC,
- in fact, the very latest versions of every program needed to use the Net.
- After setting my options in the listed programs, and a small edit of the
- supplied script file for STiK, my computer was ready for the Internet.
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- Features
-
- Zetnet offers all types of connection, including the SLIP protocol which
- STiK can only use at the moment. It also has dynamic IP addressing and
- uses a 0845 number, so your calls to Zetnet act like a local call. The
- sign up fee is £20. From then on, you can pay either monthly (£7.50) or
- annualy (£80), which works out to around £6.66 a month. Zetnet also have a
- 'Zetnet-Atarians mailing list', which as the name suggests is a mailing
- list where Atari users can get together to talk about software problems
- they have on their machines, which anyone can join by sending an email to
- David Henderson asking to join. Also for your money you get five megabytes
- of webspace for your own homepage.
-
- If you are interested in geting onto the Internet, then I reccommend this
- provider. It's cheap, you are supplied all the software you need, it's
- fast, and it is actually supported via the 'Zetnet-Atarians mailing list'.
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- Contacting Zetnet
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- The Zetnet Internet Service can be contacted by telephone on 01595 696667,
- fax on 01595 696548, email 'info@zetnet.co.uk' or on their homepages
- 'http://www.zetnet.co.uk'. If you already own a Zetnet account, you can
- get your own webspace by asking 'webweaver@zetnet.net' for some.
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- Zetnet Logo
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- Zetnet text logo
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