How to sign up to Freeserve By Diana the Valkyrie Freeserve is a service available in the UK, it's a free internet connection. It's entirely free, at no point do you have to pay a penny. Freeserve aim to make money out of selling advertising, just like many TV and radio channels. The easiest way, is to install it from the CD Rom that you can get free, from Dixons. But if that goes wrong for some reason, here's an alternative way. Warning - this is a bit complicated. If you don't understand step 1, then don't try any of it, use the CD Rom. If you need technical support, then Freeeserve offer it at one pound per minute, on 0906 553 5600 This is really aimed at people who are in the UK; from anywhere else, the phone calls will be rather expensive. 1. Create a new Dial-up Networking Connection, using the phone number 0845 079 6699. Let's call it "cherwell", but you can call it anything you like. I'll use cherwell as an example here. In the properties ... server types, all the check boxes should be cleared except the TCP/IP one which should be checked. Under properties ... server types ... TCP/IP settings, uncheck the "Use IP Compression" 2. Double click on the Cherwell connection. Give it the username freeservesignup, password signup. That will get you a connection. But only a connection to step 3. 3. Using your browser, go to https://signup.freeserve.net (you can only access this while you're using the above connection). Note it is https and not http 4. Create a new account, giving it your name, address, and the other marketing information it wants. You can check the "no junk mail" box if you want. 5. Then it will ask you to choose your email address. This is very important, because it becomes part of your domain name. So, if you live at Cherwell Manor, you might choose John@cherwell.freeserve.co.uk. Or you might use your company name. You'll also choose a password. 6. The server will then send you a file called "install.ins". Save it to your hard disk, and read it later. At this point, don't click on any of the buttons on the page, all they do is save another copy of that file. You should hang up your connection, because you're going to change the dial-up details. 7. Right-click on the dial-up Cherwell icon (or whatever you called it), and choose "connect". Now you have to change the user name and password. Use the ones you chose in 5 above. So the username will be cherwell.freeserve.co.uk 8. You are now all signed up and ready to go! Double-click on Cherwell, and it should connect you via Freeserve. You can now surf the internet, and all you'll pay is your local phone call. 9. From now on, you can dial up via Freeserve by double-clicking on the Cherwell icon. Youre web space is accessed at http://www.cherwell.freeserve.co.uk and you can ftp to it by ftp- connecting to uploads.webspace.freeserve.net using the username cherwell.freeserve.co.uk and your password. Your smtp server is smtp.freeserve.net and your pop server is pop.freeserve.net, and the login name is cherwell.freeserve.co.uk, and the password is the one you chose. The nntp server is nntp.freeserve.net The main Freeserve page is at http://www.freeserve.net/ 10. Read the install.ins file. It contains most of the information I give above, and has your password in plain text. The rest of the information here, came from the CD they distribute in a file d:\win95\en\demobin\signup.isp and the yellow folder that the CD comes in.