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Table of Contents
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A. Version Timeline
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B. The story behind this guide
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C. Free ISP setup on a PPP connection
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1. Finding your Username and password
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2. Exact ISP info
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a. Juno
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b. NetZero
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c. Spinway
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d. !stUp
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D. Using Free ISPs on non-Winblows systems
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E. FAQ U
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A. Version Timeline
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Version 1.01 - "Universal" guide created. Combines all 4 PPP guides to Juno,
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NetZero, Spinway, and 1stUp that I created eariler this month along with how
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to configure most Free ISPs on a PPP connection, newfound PPP information, and
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some answers to your questions.
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Version 1.0A, 1.0B, 1.0C, 1.0D - How to Use your Free ISP on a PPP connection
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(A = Juno, B = NetZero, C = Spinway, D = 1stUp. Originally Separate guides.
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B. The story behind this guide
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Getting online was always a hassle with most "Free" Internet Services.
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They plague you with constant banner ads, the software slows your machine
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and connection down massively, and they annoy me greatly. Well, after
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dealing with this for over 6 months, and seeing one of my favorite Free ISP
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services, FreeWWWeb, consumed completely by the evil known as Juno I got
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angry and decided to look for some patches to deal with this. My results
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weren't too good, most of the patches were version precise and half of the
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time didn't work.
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When I put on a program that came with a new modem I had, it came with some
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software that logged all of the Modem information that was sent and received
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during the logging process. Then, I came up with the idea that led me to
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discovering how to connect to these services without using any additional
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software than Dial Up Networking or whatever you use to get a PPP connection
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with your modem. After poking around in these log files and some windows
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settings, I found how to do it.
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C. Free ISP setup on a PPP connection
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1. Finding your username and password
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Now before you can begin this you will need the following.
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1. A Winblows computer (95/98/ME/NT/2000 mainly, GNU/Linux, BSD,
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and MacOS users please refer to section D)
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2. TCP/IP and Dial Up Adapter setup (check this by selecting the
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Networking Option in the Control Panel)
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3. A Modem (DUH!!!)
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4. A Free ISP setup with your account working (DUH #2!!!)
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Now comes the central howto on this.
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1. Go into Dial Up Networking, right-click on the connection linked
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to your Free ISP and select properties.
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Select the Server Types Tab, and make sure "Log onto Network"
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is selected.
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2. Go into the Control Panel and Select Networking. Click on Dial-Up
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Adapter and hit the properties button.
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Change the Option "Record to Log file" to Yes and restart your
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computer.
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3. After restarting, connect to your Free ISP using the software.
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After the connection is established, terminate the connection,
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close the software and never use it again. DO NOT DELETE THE
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SOFTWARE.
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4. Go into the Run Option by going Start--->Run and type in
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"C:\windows\ppplog.txt" to open up the PPP log.
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5. Look for the following.
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - PPP : Transmitting Control Packet of length: 50
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0000: c0 23 01 02 00 30 18 65 | .#...0#
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0008: 6d 69 73 73 61 72 79 68 | ########
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0010: 61 40 61 6c 74 61 76 69 | ########
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0018: 73 74 61 2e 6e 65 74 12 | #######.
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0020: 39 41 37 39 36 39 30 33 | ########
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0028: 32 38 32 32 30 36 31 31 | ########
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10-12-2000 21:46:01.45 - Data 0030: 37 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ##......
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6. Now, let me decrypt what this is. Now, you can disregard the dates,
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times, and Data packet info. What you will want to look at is the
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information after the vertical line (|). From here you will see
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your username and password. The first series of # is where your
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username are and the second series of # are your password. They
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are always separated by a period from what I have seen. Each ISP
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has a different way of show this but there are some common
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characteristics.
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7. Once you have your username and password, you are ready to rock.
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Setup a new Dial Up connection in Dial Up Networking and put in
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your respective Dial Up Number. After the connection has been
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setup. Double-Click on the connection, put in your
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username/password and connect!
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Note: Notice that the passwords are encrypted. That is how they have
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foiled you from getting on there with any PPP software
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2. Exact ISP info
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As I have said, each ISP works a differnet way and are confusing. I don't
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have all of the Free ISPs on here, but I do have the 4 major ones figured
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out right now. If you have info about certain Free ISPs that I don't,
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please send it in to help me with my research. If I find that your
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information is true then I will put it in and put you in a Credits Section.
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(I don't have one right now as this was just made.) Now, onto the info
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a. Juno - Now, this is actually one of those ISPs which I haven't
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tried this, rather I found another way of finding the info you
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need. This has been taken directly from the original Juno guide
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I made.
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1. Install Juno (you have to in order to get this to work)
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2. Find out your number and set up the program.
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3. After connecting and confirming that it works, close Juno
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and NEVER use it again.
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4. Go to Dial Up Networking and Open up Juno Web, put your
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username in if it already isn't listed.
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5. Open up C:\windows\juno.ini (or do a search for juno.ini
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depending on which version of the software you have.)
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6. In there is your encrypted password, which is how they
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have foiled most attempts to connect with PPP software other
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than their shit, UNTIL NOW!
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7. Copy and Paste that password over to your DUN connection.
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8. Connect!
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b. NetZero - The username is usually 3.0.4:username@netzero.net and
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the password is a password that begins with 0 and ends with 1.
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The 3.0.4 before your username is the version of the software
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that you use so it may be different with whatever software you
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use, however the login will work with no problem.
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c. Spinway - The username is 030username@mpspinway followed by the
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password. I don't know if the password has a particular pattern
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on here. It was 8 characters for me so if anybody can help on this
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it would be appreciated.
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d. 1stUp - The username is username@########.net (the # is whatever
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the name your ISP is that runs from the 1stup servers. More on
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that in Section E.
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D. Using Free ISPs on non-Winblows systems
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Now, I know that there are many people who will want to use these ISPs on
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GNU/Linux, BSD, MacOS, Solaris, and any other Operating System that you can
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think of. In order to use them, you have to figure our your username and
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password. So you will need to use Winblows for that. However, once you
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have figured these out, just put in your access number, username, and
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password to use it with your OS's PPP software. Well, atleast you will
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be able to use Free ISPs on GNU/Linux now. This has been tested by some
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of the buddies in the §X crew. I look forward to this once I get a new
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hard drive and Linux.
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E. FAQ U
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Q. Who are Spinway and 1stUp and why didn't you cover AltaVista, NBCi, XOOM, etc.?
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A. Spinway and 1stUp are services that allow for companies to get the right to
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slap on their own name and custom stuff into the software and send you ads
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that they profit from. They charge these companies cash to put their name
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on the service to make it seem like that that companies like AltaVista have
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their own ISP, when in reality it is 1stUp's server. To find out if your
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ISP falls into this go into Dial Up Networking and look for your ISP name,
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if you see another name for it then it falls into this category. One thing
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that bothers me about this is that 1stUp has made it so that they require
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that you use the company's E-Mail and Password which probably is a headache
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in itself to setup for them. It also makes it hard for this guide to give
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better instructions about usernames and passwords on it.
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Q. I need to E-Mail you a question or some information? How do I contact you?
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A. My E-Mail is amp@soldierx.com. Please check the newest version of the guide
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to see if your question is covered before you consider E-Mailing me.
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