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Setup your Macintosh OS 7.5.5 to 8.1 machine for Free internet access.
The following instructions take you through the steps needed to set up your free connection.
 
For ease of reading please drag this window so that it fills the whole of your screen.
 
There are 4 main sections:
 
1. Setting up TCP/IP
2. Configuring MacPPP
3. Mac OS 8 extras
4. Logging on
 
1. Setting up TCP/IP.
 

  1. Go to the Apple Menu, then Control Panels, then find and open the TCP/IP Control Panel. If you do not have TCP/IP installed you will need to install it from the Macintosh System disks that came with your computer. If you do not have System 7.5.5 then you will need to purchase a copy of TCP/IP from your Apple Dealer or shop.
     
  2. If, instead of TCP/IP, you have MacTCP then there may be something you can try. Search (Command-F) for "Network Software Selector". If you have it, open it, select Use Open Transport Networking as opposed to Use Classic Networking and restart your Mac.
     
  3. If you don't have Network Software Selector then please refer to the instructions for 7.5 MacTCP
     
  4. When you open TCP/IP you will see a box like the one above. Click on the Connect via menu to select MacPPP. Then click on the Configure menu to choose Using PPP Server.
     
  5. In the Name server addr.: box type:
     
    212.1.128.165
    212.1.128.156
     
    When your TCP/IP Control Panel looks like the screen shot here close the window and click the Save button when asked if you wish to save.
     
  6. Now that we have configured TCP/IP, we move on to set up another control panel, Config PPP.
2. Configuring MacPPP
 
  1. Open the Config PPP Control Panel from your Apple menu and you should see something like this:
     

     
  2. Click on the New button and type ecosse.net, or whatever you wish to call this script. Use the Port Name menu to tell PPP which port your Modem is connected to, either the printer port or the modem port or simply select your modem if it appears here.
     
    Make sure all the other choices are as in this picture.
     
    As you can see, this example knows that there is an internal modem, and so it was available on the menu. If your modem is external, plug it into the modem port (marked with a telephone symbol on the back of your Mac) and choose Modem Port at this stage.
     
  3. When you are finished click on the Config button.
     

     
  4. If you dial through a switchboard, you may need a 9, (nine comma) before the phone number to gain an external line.
     
  5. Fill in the details as shown selecting the correct telephone number for your modem:
     
    • 0845 662 1309 for most modems and ISDN
       
    and then click on the Connect Script button.
     

     
  6. You need to fill in the cells as they are here, exactly, and click OK.
     
  7. Next click on the Authentication button and add the Auth.ID: calico and the Password: login
    The Password field hides the text for security reasons behind bullet points. Make sure you type it exactly using all lower case characters and then press OK.
     
3. MacOS 8 Extras
 
MacOS 8 includes two more Control Panels that also need to be configured.
 
If you are running a version of the Operating System earlier than 8, such as 7.5.5, 7.6.1 etc., you may ignore this section.
  1. Open the PPP Control Panel.
     

     
  2. Fill out everything as shown.
     
  3. Clicking on the Options button will reveal 3 tabs that we will run through quickly. Simply make all the settings look like the following 3 pictures.
     
  4. Redialing:
     

     
  5. Connection:
     

     
  6. Protocol:
     

     
  7. Open the Modem Control Panel.
     

     
  8. As before, use the Connect via menu to find either your modem or the port to which it is connected.
     
  9. Then close and save.
4. Logging on
 
You are now ready to connect to the net.
  1. Use the Open button in Config PPP or the Connect button in MacOS 8 PPP to do so.
     
  2. Use the Close button in either of those Control Panels to disconnect.
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