| "PPP" stands for Point-to-Point
Protocol, and it's a standard for allowing computers to access the Internet over
dial-up lines (versus a direct connection, such as many larger businesses and universities
now have). Waverider offers PPP dial-up
accounts to make connecting more affordable and flexible for anyone who can't justify the
expense of a dedicated high-speed network connection. To access Waverider from a Mac, you will need a PPP-compatible
dialer such as FreePPP (the latest and greatest of a
series of revisions to a freeware package orig inally called MacPPP).
FreePPP consists of two pieces: an application called FreePPP
Setup and an extension called PPP. To set
up for dialing Waverider, all you need is to add some
information to FreePPP Setup and you should be ready
to dial in and surf away (assuming you've already set up Mac
TCP or Open Transport,
of course). |
for
the first time, it should show you a screen similar to this: 