From: abrody@worldweb.net Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 20:07:10 -0500 To: macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: InterSLIP-FAQ-4-10-95 Dear Moderators, Some slight modifications to my former FAQ, please replace it with this new one. Sorry for the double post. I realized the former had no subject line. ------------ Attached is a new update of the FAQ I previously posted. This post pre-empts any pre-existing posts of this FAQ. Disclaimer: I am an end-user of all (no longer an end-user of InterSLIP)* the software mentioned below, and not the author of any of these packages. I provide this FAQ after having 6 months of trouble setting up a SLIP connection with an Internet service provider that doesn't have any Macintoshes to speak of. After finally finding out what configuration is most apt to give good service, I felt it best to share this setup with anyone who happens to read this FAQ. The FAQ begins here: To setup a proper InterSLIP connection via modem, follow these suggestions as much as possible by getting: 1. Use MacTCP 2.0.4 or later (available from the "Internet Starter Kit" by Adam Engst, and an upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.04 from a sumex-aim mirror site). Requires: MacTCP DNR to be in your system folder, MacTCP to be in your Control Panels folder MacTCP Prep to be in your preferences folder 2. Interslip 1.0.1 (part of the "Internet Starter Kit" or you can get it from Interslip-installer-101.hqx from comm/tcp directory of sumex-aim and mirror archives) which requires: Interslip Setup in any folder you can access easily. InterSLIP Extension in your Extensions Folder Interslip Folder in your preferences folder Trash the InterSLIP Control Panel, it was used only in earlier versions of InterSLIP. You will need a dialing script called a CCL script sent to you by your modem manufacture, that you can put in your System Folder/Preferences/Interslip Folder/Dialing Scripts folder. These should not be confused with other CCL ARA scripts not stored as ASCII. Only ASCII scripts are known from my experience to work with InterSLIP. ASCII format can be identified by either TEXT document, or Teachtext document file type. 3. Put a gateway script provided by your internet service provider in your System Folder/Preferences/Interslip Folder/Gateway scripts folder. Both scripts should have e-mail headers removed (if received via e-mail). 4. Your internet service provider should have prior experience setting up Interslip configurations, who will provide you all the other settings for MacTCP and Interslip. 5. Get a $15 Hardware Handshaking cable for your modem, if your Internet service provider gives you option of using Hardware Handshaking (doesn't make sense for internal modems, thus you should leave Hardware Handshaking disabled for those modems unless otherwise specified by the modem manufacturer). 6. If planning to download images larger than 120k in 2 minutes or less, you will need at least a 9600 BAUD modem. 7. If planning to download a 1 MB movie in 20 minutes or less, you need a 14.4 k BAUD (14,400) modem or faster. Note if you are planning to get a 28.8 k BAUD modem, that your modem and your service provider's modem you dial into should have the same compression protocol supported. Compression protocols at that speed are V. 34 and V. Fast (sometimes referred to as V. FC). Differing protocols will mean no compression will result, and possibly slower speeds than the expected 28.8 k BAUD. Some older Macs have a limit on their serial port intake/output and will only support 9600 BAUD no matter how fast your modem is. 8. To not run any other extensions while connecting to the Internet, other than the ones mentioned above. Printing extensions are fine, FAXModem extensions are NOT. One person I talked with said he could run with FAXmodem extensions loaded. Though considering FaxSTF that comes with many modems does not work, I'd avoid the conflict as much as possible. 9. Do NOT open any Gopher, WWW, E-mail, Telnet, FTP software (called TCP/IP clients) until after you have properly connected through the Interslip Setup. Proper connection, implies that Interslip Setup says , and your High Speed (HS), Off-Hook (OH), Terminal Ready (TR), Carrier Detect (CD) lights on your modem are all on. It also implies that Requesting SLIP Service, and afterwards reads out under the Disconnect button in InterSLIP setup. Exceptions that work without this problem: Eudora 1.5.1, if not set to scan for messages after X period of time (0 minutes), and Netscape 1.1b3 if the modem power is off. Others may also work. Please feel free to e-mail me information about other applications that do not require a connection be in place or that do not attempt to dial for a connection. 10. A good modem INIT to help you for your Interslip Setup is (Hayes compatible modems only): AT&F&C1&D2&Q5&K3Q0E1V1L1X4S7=50S11=95^M If you have any further questions about setting up the InterSLIP setup, address them to your Internet Service Provider. Hope this piece of the puzzle helps. Sincerely, ABRODY@worldweb.net (e-mail) * I moved service providers after finding out that MacPPP supported redial, data compression, and CTS error correction. All of which aren't supported by InterSLIP. However, for some people this may not matter, as long as the lines aren't busy to the Internet Service Provider, one will be safe from the crashes that result from InterSLIP's reception of busy signals.