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Home Tech Support Setting Up Mac OS Mac PPP (Usually OS 7.x)

 

MAC PPP (USUALLY MAC OS 7.x )




  1. Click on the Apple Menu, then select Control Panels.
  2. Double Click on PPP.
  3. Put a Dot by Registered User.
  4. In the field labeled Name, type in Your username. Use lower case letters for the password.
  5. In the field labeled Password, type in Your password. Use lower case letters for the password.
  6. In the field labeled Number, type in your RNS local Dial-Up number.
  7. Make sure Save password is checked.
  8. Click Options.
  9. Click on the tab labeled Redialing.
  10. In the drop-down box labeled Redial, select Redial main number only.
  11. In the field labeled Redial x times, type in 10.
  12. In the field labeled Time between retries: x seconds, type in 5.
  13. Click on the tab labeled Connection.
  14. Make sure only Connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications, Flash icon in menu bar while connected, and Disconnect if idle for x minutes are checked
  15. In the field labeled Disconnect if idle for x minutes, type in 30.
  16. Click on the tab labeled Protocol.
  17. Make sure only Allow error correction, Compression in modem, and Use TCP header compression are checked.
  18. Click OK.
  19. Exit PPP.
  20. When prompted to save changes, Click Save.
  21. Close Control Panels.



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