December 2003
Beginner to intermediate
776 pages
45h 2m
English
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Internet Connect
Internet Connect is primarily designed for people who connect to the Internet via dial-up modem. Here’s what you can accomplish with Internet Connect:
Click Connect to dial out using your current modem settings.
Once you’re hooked up, check the status display to confirm whether your modem successfully connected to your ISP—or if you’ve been disconnected.
You also see your connection speed , to find out if you’re really connected at 56 K (ha!).
A timer shows how long you’ve been connected.
Internet Connect keeps a neat log of your connection activity (choose Window→ Connection Log). Reading this log is about as exciting as reading random entries from the White Pages. Nonetheless, if you’re having serious connection problems, it can be a useful troubleshooting tool.
The “Show modem status in menu bar” checkbox lets you use a menu bar icon to dial and observe your connections—without using Internet Connect at all.
Of course, even then, you don’t really need Internet Connect to get online. If your dial-up settings are configured correctly (see Section 18.2.2), your Mac will automatically dial whenever you launch a program that requires one (such as Internet Explorer).
In Mac OS X 10.3, Apple rolled a few other miscellaneous Internet connection functions into Internet Connect. For example:
Internet Connect is also your gateway to Virtual Private Networking, a feature that lets you tunnel into corporate networks from the road—see Section 21.5.
You can use Internet Connect to ...
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