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Q.
I can't telnet to Chebucto or access a http://chebucto.ns.ca
URL. How can I access them?
A.
Some early Windows 95 systems seem to have trouble resolving
Chebucto's address. The good news is that there is a workaround
that you can use which will work: you can use the name
www.chebucto.ns.ca for both web page addresses
and for the telnet host. Or, if you prefer, you can
use our IP address: 192.75.95.75 for these as well.
These are all names for the same machine.
Q.
Can I access secure web sites and do my banking on the net
with Chebucto Plus?
A.
Chebucto Plus is a PPP
connection which supports the strong encryption web browsers use for
secure online transactions.
Q.
Do I need your software CD?
A.
To use Chebucto Plus will require a
PPP dialer program, a web browser and (optionally) a telnet or SSH
program. If you already have these, then no, you don't need our setup CD.
You will just have to put in the new settings to use your existing
software with our service.
Our setup CD contains software for Windows XP, ME, 98 and 95. It is not
compatible with Windows Vista but Setup
info for Windows Vista is included on the CD as well as being online.
Windows Vista, XP,
ME and 98 do not require any additional software to connect to the Chebucto Plus service, but there is a
Dial-Up Networking 1.4 upgrade available from Microsoft for both versions
of Windows 98 and for Windows 95 that we recommend. There is a link to it
on our 56 K
connection troubleshooting page. Windows 95 must upgrade the Internet
Explorer web browser to at least version 4. Windows 3.1 and 3.11 require a
web browser and PPP dialer (Windows 3.1 also needs a new comm driver and a
telnet program).
Q.
How can I tell how long a session I have and how much is left?
A.
Our session timer will only come into play when there are only a few phone
lines free for people to dial in on. This almost never happens as we add
lines to our service when usage approaches capacity.
Set up http://plus.chebucto.ns.ca
as your browser's default Home Page. It has a session timer,
important Chebucto information and useful
Chebucto Plus utilities on it. It may
take a few seconds to load so if you don't see a session timer on it
right away, hit Refresh or Reload and you'll get an updated page with it
on. As your session goes on you would hit Refresh or Reload to get the
current session information updated.
To set this up as your browser's default Home Page, in Internet
Explorer look for a menu item called Internet Options under
Tools, in Mozilla Firefox look
for a menu item under Tools called Options and in Mozilla
SeaMonkey look for a menu item under Edit called
Preferences.
Note: some very early
versions of Internet Explorer display the wrong page when
http://plus.chebucto.ns.ca is typed in. If you have one of these
early versions of Internet Explorer (given out with early releases
of Windows 95), you will have to upgrade to a more recent version (IE 4 or
higher) to see the correct page. The wrong page will have no mention of
Chebucto Plus on it.
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