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Introduction, Starting an internet session, Monitoring your internet connection – RCA SpeedTouch 716v5 (WL) User Manual

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Chapter 3

Internet Connectivity Dial-In Clients

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3.1 SpeedTouch™ Web Pages

Introduction

As the SpeedTouch™ web pages are controllable from any Operating System with an
installed web browser, the method to establish PPP sessions described below you
can use on any computer system.
For more information on Internet connection setup, see the provided Installation and
Setup Guide.

Starting an Internet

session

Proceed as follows:

1

Open a web browser on your computer and browse to the SpeedTouch™ web
pages (see

“1.3.1 Access via the Web Interface” on page 11

for more

information):

By default the SpeedTouch™ shows you the Home page.

2

Click Connect at the appropriate broadband connection.
You might be requested to enter your user name and password.
As a result SpeedTouch™’s embedded PPP dial-in client establishes the Internet
connection.

3

Now you can surf the Internet.

Monitoring your

Internet connection

You are able to overview and monitor your Internet connectivity as long as the
session is running via:

The SpeedTouch™ System Information page: see

“5.3.1 Information” on

page 66

.

The SpeedTouch™ Diagnostics task: see

“5.4.1 Connectivity Check” on

page 75

.