Dial-Up Account Features

  • Can be configured for PPP, SLIP or SHELL account type
  • Unlimited access account - (for as long as you are using the system)
  • E-mail account (recieves and stores E-mail on your behalf around-the-clock)
  • Tens of thousands of UseNet Newsgroups (3 Newsfeeds are delivered via PageSat, MCI, and UUNET)
  • Personal home page disk space (5 megabytes allocated so you can setup your own World Wide Web site)
  • A license for Outlook(tm) client software for Windows, or Internet Valet client software for the McIntosh

    More Details: What is a Dial-up PPP Account?

    In general, a Dial-up PPP Account refers to a type of account that allows you to use your personal computer and a modem to dial into the deltaland.net computer server systems, which in turn connects you to the Internet. PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol, and is the technical name for the message formatting rules that the computers on the Internet use to communicate with each other. When your computer is connected to our network using PPP, it automatically recieves a unique Internet number (IP address) which in turn enables it to be uniquely identified by all of the other machines connected to the Internet.

    Your PPP Account subscription from deltaland.net allows you "unlimited" connect time for as long as you are using the account. (This excludes the use of keeping the connection alive through the use of automation while you are asleep or away) In order to maintain the highest quality of service for the lowest price prossible, we rely on the fact that our customers do not use the network unless they are personally fully engaged in its use. If you require a fulltime connection please refer to our dedicated connections service.
    Included with your PPP Account subscription is software necessary to communicate with your modem (dialer software) and the software to communicate with the network (PPP driver software). We also provide you with applications software to manage your E-mail, Newsgroup and World Wide Web activities. All of this software is called OutLook(tm). OutLook includes the industry standard, award winning Netscape Navigator© Internet Application software. For MacIntosh users, we have Internet Valet application software instead.

    A Dial-up PPP Account can be configured to handle SLIP communications (a predecessor to PPP technology) or can be configured as a SHELL account. A SHELL account implies that your PC will appear as a "dumb" terminal attached to our computer server running the Unix operating system. Under a SHELL configuration, your PC is not able to run graphically-oriented applications. However, a SHELL account is fairly efficient for text applications and is sometimes preferred by the programming community.

    Standard Voice Grade Line is the same kind of phone line that you use in your home or business. An ISDN line is a special digital data line that provides higher data transfer rates than you can get from Standard Voice Grade Lines. ISDN lines are configured by the phone company with two data channels. Voice or computer data can be configured for each channel. You can get up to 33.6 kbs data rate from Voice Grade, while you can get either 64 Kbs (using only one channel for computer data) or 128 kbs (using two channels) on ISDN.

    Also included with your account is access to up to 5 megabytes of hard disk space on our World Wide Web Server. Here, you are able to place personal web pages for all the world to access that you develop yourself. Personal web pages usually promote who you are, by displaying your hobbies, interests and favorite links. You may wish to take one of our training classes: "Intro to Web Development" to learn how to build your own personal web site.
    Personal web sites are not permitted to promote services or products. If you have a business requirement for a web page, please refer to our Commercial Web Site product which is designed to offer more functionality, greater hard disk space, and greater data flows.

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